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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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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


Rooting area and drinker affect dunging behaviour of organic pigs

Authors: Herman Maarten Vermeer, Henk Altena, Pieter Franciscus Gerardus Vereijken, Marc Bernardus Maria Bracke

Publication/Journal: Applied Animal Behaviour Science

Keywords: behaviour, drinking, dunging, organic, pigs, rooting

2015


Capybara (Hydrochoerus hydrochaeris) behaviour and welfare: implications for successful farming practices

Authors: SSC Nogueira, SLG Nogueira-Filho

Publication/Journal: Animal Welfare

Keywords: animal cohesion, animal welfare, captivity, farming, handling practices, social behaviour

2012


Conservation and Climate Change: Assessing the Vulnerability of Snow Leopard Habitat to Treeline Shift in the Himalaya

Authors: J. L. Forrest, E. Wikramanayake, R. Shrestha, G. Areendran, K. Gyeltshen, A. Maheshwari, S. Mazumdar, R. Naidoo, G. J. Thapa, K. Thapa

Publication/Journal: Biological Conservation

Keywords: climate adaptation, climate change, conservation planning, endangered species, himalaya, snow leopard

2012


Climate change threatens polar bear populations: a stochastic demographic analysis

Authors: Christine M. Hunter, Hal Caswell, Michael C. Runge, Eric V. Regehr, Steve C. Amstrup, Ian Stirling

Publication/Journal: Ecology

Keywords: climate change, demography, ipcc, ltre analysis, matrix population models, polar bear, sea ice, stochastic growth rate, stochastic models, ursus maritimus

2010


How Chemical Signals Integrate Asian Elephant Society: The Known and the Unknown

Authors: L.E.L. Rasmussen, V. Krishnamurthy

Publication/Journal: Zoo Biology

Keywords: breath, maternal-filial chemical signals, mudumalai wildlife sanctuary, musth, temporal gland secretions, urine

2000


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