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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=cumulative%20culture

Behaviors related to positive, neutral, or negative valence in Odocoileus virginianus in below ground level or ground level exhibitor and influx of visitors

Authors: Nelly Elizabeth Puc-Balam, Luis Armando Sarmiento-Franco, Pedro Geraldo González-Pech

Publication/Journal: Journal of Veterinary Behavior

Keywords: animal welfare, visitor effects, white-tailed deer, zoo

2023


Exploration of cultural norms and behavioural beliefs about zoo animal behaviour, welfare, ethics and husbandry practices in a sample of the international zoo community

Authors: Heather Bacon, Catriona Bell, Cathy M Dwyer, Natalie Waran, Yan Qing, Liu Xia, Darren J Shaw

Publication/Journal: Zoo Biology

Keywords: animal welfare, beliefs, culture, zoo

2023


Assessing North Atlantic Right Whale (Eubalaena glacialis) Welfare

Authors: Katherine King, Melissa Joblon, Kerry McNally, Leigh Clayton, Heather Pettis, Peter Corkeron, Felicia Nutter

Publication/Journal: Journal of Zoological and Botanical Gardens

Keywords: animal welfare, animal welfare assessment, conservation, North Atlantic right whale

2021


DNA Damage as a Potential Non-Invasive Indicator of Welfare: A Preliminary Study in Zoo-Housed Grizzly Bears (Ursus arctos horribilis)

Authors: Grace Fuller, Jennifer Hamilton, Stephanie Allard

Publication/Journal: Journal of Zoological and Botanical Gardens

Keywords: 8-hydroxy-2′-deoxyguanosine, 8-OHdG, animal welfare indicator, glucocorticoids, grizzly bear, oxidative stress

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


Assessing and Enhancing the Welfare of Animals with Equivocal and Reliable Cues

Authors: J. V. Watters, B. L. Krebs

Publication/Journal: Animals

Keywords: *cognitive bias, affective state, agency, anticipatory behavior, appetitive behavior, human-animal relationship, judgement bias

2019


Can biomarkers of biological age be used to assess cumulative lifetime experience?

Authors: M. Bateson, C. Poirier

Publication/Journal: Animal Welfare

Keywords: animal welfare, biological age, exposome, hippocampus, lifetime experience, telomere length

2019


Lessons from 30 years of population viability analysis of wildlife populations

Authors: Robert C. Lacy

Publication/Journal: Zoo Biology

Keywords: conservation planning, ex situ, extinction, in situ, simulation, threat assessment, uncertainty

2019


The Speciesism Debate: Intuition, Method, and Empirical Advances

Authors: Jeroen Hopster

Publication/Journal: Animals

Keywords: Bernard Williams, cumulative culture, evolutionary debunking arguments, intuition, moral psychology, Peter Singer, Shelly Kagan, species-relativism, speciesism

2019


Using Qualitative Behaviour Assessment to Investigate Human-Animal Relationships in Zoo-Housed Giraffes (Giraffa camelopardalis)

Authors: Freisha Patel, Francoise Wemelsfelder, Samantha J. Ward

Publication/Journal: Animals

Keywords: animal welfare, free choice profiling, HAR, human-animal interaction, keeper-animal interactions, qba

2019


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