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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.
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A Systematic Review of Equine Personality

Authors: Ellen M Rankins, Carissa L Wickens

Publication/Journal: Applied Animal Behaviour Science

Keywords: behavior, coping styles, disposition, equine, personality, temperament

2020

Welfare considerations: Salivary cortisol concentrations on frequency of therapy dog visits in an outpatient hospital setting: A pilot study

Authors: Stephanie D. Clark, Jessica M. Smidt, Brent A. Bauer

Publication/Journal: Journal of Veterinary Behavior

Keywords: animal-assisted therapy, cortisol, therapy dog, welfare

2019

Baseline and stress-induced corticosterone levels are higher during spring than autumn migration in European robins

Authors: Julia Loshchagina, Arseny Tsvey, Sergey Naidenko

Publication/Journal: Hormones and Behavior

Keywords: corticosterone, european robin, migratory disposition, songbird

2018

The backtest in pigs revisited—Inter-situational behaviour and animal classification

Authors: Manuela Zebunke, Gerd Nürnberg, Nina Melzer, Birger Puppe

Publication/Journal: Applied Animal Behaviour Science

Keywords: backtest, behaviour tests, classification, coping, personality, pigs

2017

Development of personality tests to use in the field, stable over time and across situations, and linked to horses’ show jumping performance

Authors: Léa Lansade, Pascaline Philippon, Lucile Hervé, Marianne Vidament

Publication/Journal: Applied Animal Behaviour Science

Keywords: activity, fearfulness, reactivity, rideability, tactile sensitivity, temperament

2016

Relationships between pig welfare, productivity and farmer disposition

Authors: T. Jääskeläinen, T. Kauppinen, K. M. Vesala, A. Valros

Publication/Journal: Animal Welfare

Keywords: animal welfare, attitude, farmer, pig, production, theory of planned behaviour

2014

Personality and Temperament in Nonhuman Primates

Authors: Alexander Weiss, James E. King, Lindsay Murray

Publication/Journal: Developments in Primatology: Progress and Prospects

Keywords: personality, primates, temperament

2011

Novelty-seeking temperament in captive stumptail macaques (macaca arctoides) and spider monkeys (ateles geoffroyi)

Authors: Ana María Santillán-Doherty, José Cortés-Sotres, Rita Virginia Arenas-Rosas, Alejandra Márquez-Arias, Carlos Cruz, Asunción Medellín, Ana Julia Aguirre, Jairo Muñóz-Delgado, José Luis Díaz

Publication/Journal: Journal of Comparative Psychology

Keywords: ateles geojji-oyi, comparative study, macaca arctoides, novelty-seeking temperament

2010

Using behavioral observations and keeper questionnaires to assess social relationships among captive female African elephants

Authors: Elizabeth W. Freeman, Bruce A. Schulte, Janine L. Brown

Publication/Journal: Zoo Biology

Keywords: african elephant, behavioral profile, loxodonta africana, questionnaires

2010

Scale variation in a laboratory colony of amelanistic diamondback rattlesnakes (Crotalus atrox)

Authors: William B. McCrady, James B. Murphy, Clay M. Garrett, David T. Roberts

Publication/Journal: Zoo Biology

Keywords: anomalies, genetics, reptilia, serpentes, viperidae

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