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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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Behavioural Indicators of Pain and Suffering in Arthropods and Might Pain Bite Back?

Authors: Robert W. Elwood

Publication/Journal: Animals

Keywords: Chelicerata, contests, Mandibulata, nociception, pain, traumatic mating, venom

2023

Territorial aggression reduces vigilance but increases aggression towards predators in a cooperatively breeding fish

Authors: Sybille Hess, Stefan Fischer, Barbara Taborsky

Publication/Journal: Animal Behaviour

Keywords: antipredator behaviour, cichlid fish, computer animation, predation risk, territory defence, trade-off

2016

Analysis of the phenotypic link between behavioural traits at mixing and increased long-term social stability in group-housed pigs

Authors: Suzanne Desire, Simon P. Turner, Richard B. D’Eath, Andrea B. Doeschl-Wilson, Craig R. G. Lewis, Rainer Roehe

Publication/Journal: Applied Animal Behaviour Science

Keywords: aggressive behaviour, long-term social behaviour, mixing aggression, pigs, skin lesions

2015

Asymmetric effects of contaminant exposure during asymmetric contests in the hermit crab Pagurus bernhardus

Authors: Stephen J. White, Richard K. Pipe, Andrew Fisher, Mark Briffa

Publication/Journal: Animal Behaviour

Keywords: anthropogenic impact, copper, decision-making, hermit crab, pagurus bernhardus, pollutant

2013

Steroid hormone levels in calling males and males practicing alternative non-calling mating tactics in the green treefrog, Hyla cinerea

Authors: Christopher J. Leary, Samuel Harris

Publication/Journal: Hormones and Behavior

Keywords: alternative mating tactics, androgens, anuran, corticosterone, satellite behavior, vocalization

2013

Understanding how animals fight with Lloyd Morgan’s canon

Authors: Robert W. Elwood, Gareth Arnott

Publication/Journal: Animal Behaviour

Keywords: assessment, cognition, contest, decision-making, game theory

2012

Social experience in early ontogeny has lasting effects on social skills in cooperatively breeding cichlids

Authors: Cornelia Arnold, Barbara Taborsky

Publication/Journal: Animal Behaviour

Keywords: aggressive behavior, aggressive behaviour, cichlid, cooperative breeder, early environment, neolamprologus pulcher, ontogeny, social skill, submissive behavior, submissive behaviour

2010

A comparison of aggressive and foraging behaviour between juvenile cutthroat trout, rainbow trout and F1 hybrids

Authors: Steven M. Seiler, Ernest R. Keeley

Publication/Journal: Animal Behaviour

Keywords: aggression, foraging ability, foraging behavior, hybridization, oncorhynchus clarkii bouvieri, oncorhynchus-mykiss, rainbow-trout, yellowstone cutthroat trout

2007

Social cognition in the domestic dog: behaviour of spectators towards participants in interspecific games

Authors: Nicola J. Rooney, John W. S. Bradshaw

Publication/Journal: Animal Behaviour

Keywords: dog, social cognition

2006

Win, lose or draw: a comparison of fight structure based on fight conclusion in the fallow deer

Authors: Jennings, Dómhnall J.; Gammell, Martin P.; Carlin, Caitríona M.; Hayden, Thomas J.

Publication/Journal: Behaviour

Keywords: assessment process, dama dama, fallow deer, fight conclusion, fight structure

2005

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