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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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Aquatic and Terrestrial Invertebrate Welfare

Authors: Gregory A. Lewbart, Trevor T. Zachariah

Publication/Journal: Animals

Keywords: chelicerates, coelenterates, crustaceans, echinoderms, enrichment, health, insects, invertebrates, mollusks, myriapods, welfare

2023

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

The effects of claw ligatures in American lobster (Homarus americanus) storage: a preliminary study of haemolymph parameters

Authors: Chiara Coppola, Erica Tirloni, Mauro Vasconi, Aniello Anastasio, Simone Stella, Cristian Bernardi

Publication/Journal: Acta Veterinaria Brno

Keywords: claws binding, crustacea, invertebrates, stress response

2019

Physiological and Behavioral Indicators to Measure Crustacean Welfare

Authors: Rebecca Adams, Catherine E. Stanley, Elena Piana, Robin L. Cooper

Publication/Journal: Animals

Keywords: crayfish, heating, slaughter

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

Assortative mating by size without a size-based preference: the female-sooner norm as a mate-guarding criterion

Authors: Matthias Galipaud, Loïc Bollache, François-Xavier Dechaume-Moncharmont

Publication/Journal: Animal Behaviour

Keywords: amplexus, crustacean, inferential fallacy, male mate choice, male-taller norm, size-assortative mating, state-dependent preference, time left to moult

2013

Evidence for pain in decapod crustaceans

Authors: R. W. Elwood

Publication/Journal: Animal Welfare

Keywords: animal welfare, avoidance learning, decapod, motivational trade-off, nociception, protective motor reaction

2012

Pain and stress in crustaceans?

Authors: Robert W. Elwood, Stuart Barr, Lynsey Patterson

Publication/Journal: Applied Animal Behaviour Science

Keywords: avoidance learning, crustacea, decapoda, opioids, pain, rubbing, stress, trade-offs, welfare

2009

Nociception or pain in a decapod crustacean?

Authors: Stuart Barr, Peter R. Laming, Jaimie T. A. Dick, Robert W. Elwood

Publication/Journal: Animal Behaviour

Keywords: benzocaine, decapod, invertebrate, nociception, pain, palaemon elegans, welfare

2008

Considerations on the diet composition and feeding rate of dermersal sharks in 15 European public aquaria

Authors: Max Janse

Publication/Journal: Zoo Biology

Keywords: carcharhinus spp, carcharias taurus, dermersal sharks, diet, minerals, nutrition, vitamins

2003

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