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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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Repeatability of measures of behavioral organization over two years in captive infant rhesus macaques, Macaca mulatta

Authors: Alexander J. Pritchard, John P. Capitanio, Laura Del Rosso, Brenda McCowan, Jessica J. Vandeleest

Publication/Journal: American Journal of Primatology

Keywords: biobehavioral assessment, emotionality, infant temperament, macaca-mulatta, personality-traits, rhesus macaque

2024


Aggressive encounters lead to negative affective state in fish

Authors: Leia Rogers, Ellie Sales, Shokoofeh Shamsi, R Keller Kopf, Rafael Freire

Publication/Journal: Plos One

Keywords: affective state, aggression, fish welfare

2020


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


Don’t poke the bear: using tracking data to quantify behavioural syndromes in elusive wildlife

Authors: Anne G. Hertel, Martin Leclerc, Dan Warren, Fanie Pelletier, Andreas Zedrosser, Thomas Mueller

Publication/Journal: Animal Behaviour

Keywords: activity sensors, brown bear, gps collar, multivariate mixed model, personality, repeatability

2019


The Ethics of Eliminating Harmful Species: The Case of the Tsetse Fly

Authors: Jeremy Bouyer, Neil H. Carter, Chelsea Batavia, Michael Paul Nelson

Publication/Journal: Bioscience

Keywords: ethics, Glossinidae, sleeping sickness, sterile insect technique, trypanosomosis, vector control

2019


Preliminary observations of an unusual mouth interaction between beluga calves (Delphinapterus leucas)

Authors: Heather M. Hill, Sarah Dietrich, Sara Guarino, Magdalena Banda, Kristie Lacy

Publication/Journal: Zoo Biology

Keywords: beluga calves, delphinapterus leucas, development, mouth‐to‐mouth interaction, social interaction

2019


Stall architecture influences horses’ behaviour and the prevalence and type of stereotypies

Authors: Clémence Lesimple, Emmanuel Gautier, Haïfa Benhajali, Céline Rochais, Christophe Lunel, Samia Bensaïd, Adala Khalloufi, Séverine Henry, Martine Hausberger

Publication/Journal: Applied Animal Behaviour Science

Keywords: horse, housing, stereotypic/abnormal repetitive behaviours, time-budget, welfare

2019


“Hay-bags” and “Slow feeders”: Testing their impact on horse behaviour and welfare

Authors: C. Rochais, S. Henry, M. Hausberger

Publication/Journal: Applied Animal Behaviour Science

Keywords: feeding behaviour, hay-bags, horses, human-horse relationship, slow feeders, welfare

2018


Development of sociality and emergence of independence in a killer whale (Orcinus orca) calf from birth to 36 months

Authors: Sara Guarino, Heather M. Hill, Julie Sigman

Publication/Journal: Zoo Biology

Keywords: cetacean, development, killer whale, maternal care, orcinus orca, play, socialization

2017


Exposing avian embryos to light affects post-hatch anti-predator fear responses

Authors: Gregory S. Archer, Joy A. Mench

Publication/Journal: Applied Animal Behaviour Science

Keywords: avian, embryo, fear, incubation, lateralization, light

2017


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