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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.
URL: https://detroitzoo.org/resources/?fwp_search=culling

Compassionate versus consequentialist conservation

Authors: Jordan O. Hampton, Bruce Warburton, Peter Sandoe

Publication/Journal: Conservation Biology

Keywords: animal ethics, culling, harvesting, human–wildlife conflict, overabundance, wildlife management

2019


A retrospective study of mortality in Eurasian lynx (Lynx lynx) in UK zoos

Authors: Joseph Heaver, Michael Waters

Publication/Journal: Zoo Biology

Keywords: carcinoma, disease, European, felid, zoological

2019


Both feather peckers and victims are more asymmetrical than control hens

Authors: Fernanda M. Tahamtani, Björn Forkman, Lena K. Hinrichsen, Anja B. Riber

Publication/Journal: Applied Animal Behaviour Science

Keywords: development, feather pecking, fluctuating asymmetry, laying hen, skeletal traits

2017


Monitoring the health and welfare of free-living deer in deer parks

Authors: P. Green

Publication/Journal: In Practice

Keywords: cervus-elaphus, metabolism, trace, veterinary sciences

2017


An assessment of animal welfare for the culling of peri-urban kangaroos

Authors: J. O. Hampton, D. M. Forsyth

Publication/Journal: Wildlife Research

Keywords: eastern grey kangaroos, ecology, european rabbit, impala aepyceros-melampus, macropus-giganteus, management, meat quality, population control, populations, responses, stress response, urban areas, urban ecology, white-tailed deer, wildlife management, zoology

2016


Evaluation of the efficacy of a non-penetrating captive bolt to euthanase neonatal goats up to 48 hours of age

Authors: M. A. Sutherland, T. J. Watson, C. B. Johnson, S. T. Millman

Publication/Journal: Animal Welfare

Keywords: animal welfare, electroencephalogram, euthanasia, goats, insensibility, non-penetrating captive bolt

2016


Managing the Cayo Santiago rhesus macaque population: The role of density

Authors: Raisa Hernandez-Pacheco, Diana L. Delgado, Richard G. Rawlins, Matthew J. Kessler, Angelina V. Ruiz-Lambides, Elizabeth Maldonado, Alberto M. Sabat

Publication/Journal: American Journal of Primatology

Keywords: culling, density-dependence, macaca-mulatta, population viability

2016


Survey of U.S. zoo and aquarium animal care staff attitudes regarding humane euthanasia for population management

Authors: David M. Powell, Matthew Ardaiolo

Publication/Journal: Zoo Biology

Keywords: captive management, culling, empathy, sustainability, welfare

2016


A welfare assessment of methods used for harvesting, hunting and population control of kangaroos and wallabies

Authors: K. A. Descovich, I. J. McDonald, A. Tribe, C. J. C. Phillips

Publication/Journal: Animal Welfare

Keywords: animal welfare, culling, lethal control, macropod, non-lethal control, population management

2015


Options for managing animal welfare on intensive pig farms confined by movement restrictions during an outbreak of foot and mouth disease

Authors: I. J. East, S. E. Roche, R. M. Wicks, K. de Witte, M. G. Garner

Publication/Journal: Preventive Veterinary Medicine

Keywords: animal welfare, disease management, foot and mouth disease

2014


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