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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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The development of fault bars in domestic chickens (Gallus gallus domesticus) increases with acute stressors and individual propensity: implications for animal welfare

Authors: A. Arrazola, S. Torrey

Publication/Journal: Animal Welfare

Keywords: animal welfare, feather growth, gallus gallus domesticus, psychological stress, stress response, welfare indicator

2019

Acute social stress-induced immunomodulation in pigs high and low responders to ACTH

Authors: Elodie Bacou, Karine Haurogné, Grégoire Mignot, Marie Allard, Laurence De Beaurepaire, Jordan Marchand, Elena Terenina, Yvon Billon, Julien Jacques, Jean-Marie Bach, Pierre Mormède, Julie Hervé, Blandine Lieubeau

Publication/Journal: Physiology & Behavior

Keywords: catecholamines, cortisol, hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenocortical axis, neuroimmunomodulation, pig, stress

2017

The effect of a diet change on regurgitation and reingestion in captive chimpanzees

Authors: Iris Mulder, Raymond van der Meer, Han de Vries, Elisabeth HM Sterck

Publication/Journal: Journal of Zoo and Aquarium Research

Keywords: captivity, chimpanzee, diet change, regurgitation and reingestion

2016

Crowding increases salivary cortisol but not self-directed behavior in captive baboons

Authors: Brandon L. Pearson, DeeAnn M. Reeder, Peter G. Judge

Publication/Journal: American Journal of Primatology

Keywords: anxiety, crowding, papio hamadryas hamadryas, repetitive behavior, salivary cortisol, stress

2015

A comparison of handling methods relevant to the religious slaughter of sheep

Authors: L. S. W. Bates, E. A. Ford, S. N. Brown, G. J. Richards, P. J. Hadley, S. B. Wotton, T. G. Knowles

Publication/Journal: Animal Welfare

Keywords: animal welfare, lamb, non-stun religious slaughter, pre-slaughter handling, sheep, v-shaped restrainer

2014

Morbidity and Mortality of Invertebrates, Amphibians, Reptiles, and Mammals at a Major Exotic Companion Animal Wholesaler

Authors: Shawn Ashley, Susan Brown, Joel Ledford, Janet Martin, Ann-Elizabeth Nash, Amanda Terry, Tim Tristan, Clifford Warwick

Publication/Journal: Journal of Applied Animal Welfare Science

Keywords: animal welfare, disease, exotic animal sales, mortality

2014

High oxygen consumption rates and scale loss indicate elevated aggressive behaviour at low rearing density, while elevated brain serotonergic activity suggests chronic stress at high rearing densities in farmed rainbow trout

Authors: Danielle Caroline Laursen, Patricia I. M. Silva, Bodil K. Larsen, Erik Höglund

Publication/Journal: Physiology & Behavior

Keywords: brain serotonergic activity, cortisol, metabolic rate, physical injury, rearing density

2013

Mounting behaviour in finishing pigs: Stable individual differences are not due to dominance or stage of sexual development

Authors: Sara Hintze, Desiree Scott, Simon Turner, Simone L. Meddle, Richard B. D’Eath

Publication/Journal: Applied Animal Behaviour Science

Keywords: dominance, mounting behaviour, puberty, sexual behaviour, welfare

2013

Utilising spatial distribution in two-tank systems to investigate the level of aversiveness to crowding in farmed rainbow trout Oncorhynchus mykiss

Authors: Danielle Caroline Laursen, Madelene Åberg Andersson, Patricia Isabel Mota Silva, Erik Petersson, Erik Höglund

Publication/Journal: Applied Animal Behaviour Science

Keywords: aquaculture, aversiveness, behaviour, stocking density, stress

2013

Global Animal Partnership’s 5-Step Animal Welfare Rating Standards: a welfare-labelling scheme that allows for continuous improvement

Authors: I. J. H. Duncan, M. Park, A. E. Malleau

Publication/Journal: Animal Welfare

Keywords: animal welfare, beef cattle, continuous improvement, meat chickens, pigs, turkeys

2012

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