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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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Benchmarking Giant Panda Welfare in Tourism: A Co-Design Approach for Animals, Tourists, Managers, and Researchers

Authors: Yulei Guo, David Fennell

Publication/Journal: Animals

Keywords: animal welfare, benchmark, co-design, giant panda (Ailuropoda melanoleuca), tourism, visitor comments

2024

A Comparative Multi-Zoo Survey Investigating the Housing and Husbandry of Callimico goeldii

Authors: Amanda Bartlett, James Edward Brereton, Marianne Sarah Freeman

Publication/Journal: Journal of Zoological and Botanical Gardens

Keywords: callitrichid, captive management, enclosure complexity, goeldi's monkey, welfare

2024

Qualitative Behavioural Assessment of bonobo emotional expressivity across observer groups and zoo housing environments

Authors: Daan W. Laméris, Marina Salas, Marcel Eens, Lisa Gillespie, Nicky Staes, Jonas R. R. Torfs, Jonas Verspeek, Hilde Vervaecke, Samantha J. Ward, Jeroen M. G. Stevens

Publication/Journal: Animal Welfare

Keywords: animal welfare, emotion, Fixed List, free choice profiling, primate, qba

2024

Qualitative Behavioural Assessment of bonobo emotional expressivity across observer groups and zoo housing environments

Authors: D. W. Laméris, M. Salas, M. Eens, L. Gillespie, N. Staes, J. R. Torfs, J. Verspeek, H. Vervaecke, S. J. Ward, J. M. Stevens

Publication/Journal: Anim Welf

Keywords: animal welfare, emotion, Fixed List, free choice profiling, primate, qba

2024

Dimensions of animal wellbeing

Authors: Leonard Dung

Publication/Journal: Philosophy and the Mind Sciences

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2023

Investigating Zoo Management Based on Visitors‘ Perception of service performance: a case of zoo Rabbitland, Malaysia

Authors: SITI FAHAZARINA HAZUDIN, MOHD AIDIL RIDUAN AWANG KADER, MOHD FAIZAL, AZRUL AZWAN MUHAMED, NOR HIDAYATUN ABDUL RAZAK, MAISARAH ISHAK, ADIBAH HUSSIN, AFIQAH BAZLLA MD SOOM

Publication/Journal: Journal of Sustainability Science and Management

Keywords: animal zoo tourism, Business excellence, service performance, sustainability, zoo management

2023

The Link Between Personality, Subjective Well-being, and Welfare in Zoo-Housed Sulawesi Crested Macaques (Macaca nigra)

Authors: Nia Parry-Howells, Kathy Baker, Holly L. Farmer

Publication/Journal: International Journal of Primatology

Keywords: behaviour, dominance, macaca nigra, personality, subjective well-being, Sulawesi crested macaques, welfare

2023

The Link Between Personality, Subjective Well-being, and Welfare in Zoo-Housed Sulawesi Crested Macaques (Macaca nigra)

Authors: Nia Parry-Howells, Kathy Baker, Holly L. Farmer

Publication/Journal: International Journal of Primatology

Keywords:

2023

Using qualitative behavior assessment to investigate the effect of tourist presence on the welfare in captive tigers (Panthera tigris) in three tourism facilities in Thailand

Authors: Tanya S. Erzinçlioğlu, Kenny M. D. Rutherford

Publication/Journal: Zoo Biology

Keywords: animal welfare, free choice profiling, human-animal interaction, qualitative behavior assessment

2023

Investigating the Behavior and Personality Structure of the Aldabra Tortoise during Human Interactions and Training Events

Authors: Giovanni Quintavalle Pastorino, Vanessa Smith, Massimo Faustini, Eleonora Bonacina, Davide Guadagnini, Roberto Robbiati, Alice Cavalleri, James Edward Brereton, Richard Preziosi

Publication/Journal: Animals

Keywords: Aldabrachelys giganea, animal personality, chelonia mydas, geochelone gigantea, human-animal interaction

2022

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