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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.
  3. Convene important discussions and presentations on captive exotic animal welfare and ethics.
  4. Train professionals on captive exotic animal welfare best practices and policies.
  5. Recognize advances in improving captive exotic animal welfare and ethics through awards.
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Dimensions of animal wellbeing

Authors: Leonard Dung

Publication/Journal: Philosophy and the Mind Sciences

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2023

Studying Animal Feelings: Integrating Sentience Research and Welfare Science

Authors: Heather Browning, Walter Veit

Publication/Journal: Journal of Consciousness Studies

Keywords: animal, ANIMAL AFFECT, animal welfare science, consciousness, emotions, feelings, sentience

2023

The Science of Animal Welfare: Understanding What Animals Want

Authors: Marian Stamp Dawkins

Publication/Journal:

Keywords: animal welfare

2021

The Four Cs of Modern (Neuro) ethology and Neuroethics: Cognition, Complexity, Conation, and Culture

Authors: Simon Gadbois

Publication/Journal: Neuroethics and Nonhuman Animals

Keywords: affective neuroscience, cognition, complexity, conation, culture, social neuroscience

2020

Why Are Octopuses Going to Be the ‘Poster Child’ for Invertebrate Welfare?

Authors: Jennifer Mather

Publication/Journal: Journal of Applied Animal Welfare Science

Keywords: cephalopods, consciousness, intelligence, octopuses, welfare

2020

The Brain, Unconsciousness and Death: A Critical Appraisal with Regard to Halal Meat Production

Authors: A. Fuseini

Publication/Journal: Animal Welfare

Keywords: animal welfare, bleeding-out, consciousness, death, halal slaughter, unconsciousness

2019

The Welfare of Invertebrate Animals

Authors: Claudio Carere, Jennifer A Mather

Publication/Journal: The Welfare of Invertebrate Animals

Keywords: animal personality, cephalopods, cognition, crustaceans, entomology, ethics, insects, invertebrates, model invertebrates, mollusks, nocireception, pain, research ethics, sentience, suffering

2019

Physiological and behavioural evaluation of common anaesthesia practices in the rainbow trout

Authors: Kieran C. Pounder, Jennifer L. Mitchell, Jack S. Thomson, Tom G. Pottinger, Lynne U. Sneddon

Publication/Journal: Applied Animal Behaviour Science

Keywords: 2-phenoxyethanol, anaesthetic, aversion, cortisol, stress

2018

Summoning compassion to address the challenges of conservation

Authors: Arian D. Wallach, Marc Bekoff, Chelsea Batavia, Michael Paul Nelson, Daniel Ramp

Publication/Journal: Conservation Biology

Keywords: animal ethics, conservation ethics, intrinsic value, novel ecosystem, sentience, virtue ethics

2018

Animal welfare with and without consciousness

Authors: M. S. Dawkins

Publication/Journal: Journal of Zoology

Keywords: affective state, animal welfare, behavior, consciousness, emotion, emotions, ethics, expressions, feelings, hard problem, liking, motivation, science, states, stress, systems, zoology

2017

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