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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=dairy%20cows

Vocalisations in Farm Animals: a Step Towards Positive Welfare Assessment

Authors: Karin A Laurijs, Elodie F Briefer, Inonge Reimert, Laura E Webb

Publication/Journal: Applied Animal Behaviour Science

Keywords: emotions, farm animals, positive welfare, vocalisations

2021

Diurnal variation of salivary cortisol in captive African elephants (Loxodonta africana) under routine management conditions and in relation to a translocation event

Authors: Susan Hambrecht, Ann‐Kathrin Oerke, Michael Heistermann, Paul Wilhelm Dierkes

Publication/Journal: Zoo Biology

Keywords: baseline, captive management, cortisol secretion, social introduction, stress

2020

How to Recognize Animals’ Vulnerability: Questioning the Orthodoxies of Moral Individualism and Relationalism in Animal Ethics

Authors: Martin Huth

Publication/Journal: Animals

Keywords: immanent critique, moral individualism, recognizability, relationalism, vulnerability

2020

Increasing browse and social complexity can improve zoo elephant welfare

Authors: Monica Lasky, Jennifer Campbell, Jason A Osborne, Erin L Ivory, Jacob Lasky, Corinne J Kendall

Publication/Journal: Zoo Biology

Keywords: behavior, diet, ex situ, loxodonta africana, management, social

2020

Animal health and welfare state and technical efficiency of dairy farms: possible synergies

Authors: L. Tremetsberger, C. Winckler, J. Kantelhardt

Publication/Journal: Animal Welfare

Keywords: animal welfare, dairy cows, data envelopment analysis, malmquist index, on-farm assessment, welfare quality®

2019

Animal welfare complementing or conflicting with other sustainability issues

Authors: D. M. Broom

Publication/Journal: Applied Animal Behaviour Science

Keywords: cows, domestic cats, emissions, greenhouse gases, placebo, road traffic accidents

2019

Behavioral and physiological assessment of liquid nitrogen cryoablation to prevent horn development in dairy calves

Authors: Mhairi A. Sutherland, Suzanne K. Dowling, Karin E. Schütz, Vanessa M. Cave, Nikki J. Kells, Craig B. Johnson, Mairi Stewart

Publication/Journal: Journal of Veterinary Behavior

Keywords: behavior, calves, cryoablation, disbudding, welfare

2019

Behavioral and physiological measures in dairy goats with and without small ruminant lentivirus infection

Authors: Aleksandra Górecka-Bruzda, Daria Reczyńska, Ewa Jastrzębska, Katarzyna Barłowska, Emilia Bagnicka

Publication/Journal: Journal of Veterinary Behavior

Keywords: behavior, dairy goat, health, heart rate, SRLV, welfare

2019

Comparing hair cortisol concentrations from various body sites and serum cortisol in Holstein lactating cows and heifers during thermal comfort zone

Authors: Jalil Ghassemi Nejad, Bae-Hun Lee, Ji-Yung Kim, Byong-Wan Kim, Befekadu Chemere, Kyu-Hyun Park, Kyung-Il Sung

Publication/Journal: Journal of Veterinary Behavior

Keywords: hair cortisol, heifers, holstein cows, serum cortisol, various body sites

2019

Development of a welfare assessment protocol for dairy calves from birth through to weaning

Authors: J. Barry, E. Kennedy, R. Sayers, I. J. M. de Boer, E. A. M. Bokkers

Publication/Journal: Animal Welfare

Keywords: animal welfare, behaviour, dairy calves, health, housing, management

2019

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