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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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The Ethics of Human–Animal Interactions at the Zoo

Authors: Bonnie M Perdue, Terry L Maple

Publication/Journal: CABI Books

Keywords: animal experiences, animal welfare, ethics, human-animal interactions, visitor experience

2024

Drivers and consequences of variation in individual social connectivity

Authors: Allison E. Williams, Katherine E. L. Worsley-Tonks, Vanessa O. Ezenwa

Publication/Journal: Animal Behaviour

Keywords: diet quality, grant's gazelle, group living, parasite infection, social connectivity, social network analysis

2017

Central oxytocin receptors mediate mating-induced partner preferences and enhance correlated activation across forebrain nuclei in male prairie voles

Authors: Zachary V. Johnson, Hasse Walum, Yaseen A. Jamal, Yao Xiao, Alaine C. Keebaugh, Kiyoshi Inoue, Larry J. Young

Publication/Journal: Hormones and Behavior

Keywords: functional connectivity, immediate-early gene, monogamy, pair-bonding, social attachment, social decision-making network

2016

The role of weighted and topological network information to understand animal social networks: a null model approach

Authors: Robert W. Rankin, Janet Mann, Lisa Singh, Eric M. Patterson, Ewa Krzyszczyk, Lars Bejder

Publication/Journal: Animal Behaviour

Keywords: bias, bottlenose dolphin, community structure, maximum entropy, network topology, social network

2016

Cortical Networks for Ethologically Relevant Behaviors in Primates

Authors: Jon H. Kaas, Omar A. Gharbawie, Iwona Stepniewska

Publication/Journal: American Journal of Primatology

Keywords: grasping, motor cortex, posterior parietal cortex, prosimians

2013

Individualism and Nonindividualism in the Application of Nonhuman Animal Welfare to Policy

Authors: J. W. Yeates

Publication/Journal: Journal of Applied Animal Welfare Science

Keywords: animal welfare, policy

2013

Orangutans (Pongo pygmaeus and Pongo abelii) understand connectivity in the skewered grape tool task

Authors: Nicholas J. Mulcahy, Michèle N. Schubiger, T. Suddendorf

Publication/Journal: Journal of Comparative Psychology

Keywords: connectivity physical cognition, orangutans, skewer task, tools

2013

Social networks, long-term associations and age-related sociability of wild giraffes

Authors: Kerryn D. Carter, Rachel Brand, John K. Carter, Bryan Shorrocks, Anne W. Goldizen

Publication/Journal: Animal Behaviour

Keywords: association pattern, fission–fusion, giraffa camelopardalis, giraffe, half-weight index, lagged association rate, social network analysis, sociality

2013

Terrestriality in the bornean orangutan (Pongo pygmaeus morio) and implications for their ecology and conservation

Authors: Brent Loken, Stephanie Spehar, Yaya Rayadin

Publication/Journal: American Journal of Primatology

Keywords: camera traps, conservation, indonesia, pongo pygmaeus morio, terrestriality, wehea forest

2013

Sensitivity of Insectivorous Bats to Urbanization: Implications for Suburban Conservation Planning

Authors: C. G. Threlfall, B. Law, P. B. Banks

Publication/Journal: Biological Conservation

Keywords: community ecology, insectivorous bat, species–habitat models, urban ecology

2012

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