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  1. Acquire and make easily accessible to zoo and aquarium professionals the current body of knowledge on animal welfare and ethics.
  2. Conduct and facilitate welfare assessments and applied welfare research on captive exotic animals.
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Tests of unconditioned anxiety — Pitfalls and disappointments

Authors: A. Ennaceur

Publication/Journal: Physiology & Behavior

Keywords: anxiolytics, avoidance, fear, gabaa, grooming, mice, novelty, preference, rats, rearing, stress

2014

Delay, avoidance and protection in oviposition behaviour in response to fine-scale variation in egg parasitism risk

Authors: Joseph B. Deas, Martha S. Hunter

Publication/Journal: Animal Behaviour

Keywords: behavioural plasticity, egg stacking, life history strategy, mimosestes amicus, offspring defence, parental investment, seed beetle

2013

Evaluating the costs of a sexually selected weapon: big horns at a small price

Authors: Erin L. McCullough, Douglas J. Emlen

Publication/Journal: Animal Behaviour

Keywords: cost, horn, male–male competition, rhinoceros beetle, sexual selection, trypoxylus dichotomus

2013

Fitness consequences of sibling egg cannibalism by neonates of the Colorado potato beetle, Leptinotarsa decemlineata

Authors: Karyn Collie, Sung Jin Kim, Mitchell B. Baker

Publication/Journal: Animal Behaviour

Keywords: cannibalism, colorado potato beetle, fitness benefit, inclusive fitness, kin selection, leptinotarsa decemlineata

2013

Mating status and kin recognition influence the strength of cannibalism

Authors: Whitney Parsons, Wenborui Zhong, Volker H. W. Rudolf

Publication/Journal: Animal Behaviour

Keywords: confused flour beetle, filial cannibalism, kin recognition, mating status, tribolium confusum

2013

The Evolutionary Origins and Ecological Context of Tool Use in New Caledonian Crows

Authors: C. Rutz, J. J. H. St Clair

Publication/Journal: Behavioural Processes

Keywords: animal culture, cognition, convergent evolution, extractive foraging, social learning, woodpecker

2012

Calcium and phosphorus supplementation decreases growth, but does not induce pyramiding, in young red-eared sliders, Trachemys scripta elegans

Authors: Christopher F. Stancel, Ellen S. Dierenfeld, Patricia A. Schoknecht

Publication/Journal: Zoo Biology

Keywords: carapace, nutrition, turtles

1998

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