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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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Application of Qualitative Behavioural Assessment to horses during an endurance ride

Authors: Patricia A. Fleming, Cheree L. Paisley, Anne L. Barnes, Françoise Wemelsfelder

Publication/Journal: Applied Animal Behaviour Science

Keywords: behavioural expression, competition, endurance, equine, qba, ride place

2013

The wages of violence: mobbing by mockingbirds as a frontline defence against brood-parasitic cowbirds

Authors: Ros Gloag, Vanina D. Fiorini, Juan C. Reboreda, Alex Kacelnik

Publication/Journal: Animal Behaviour

Keywords: brood parasitism, chalk-browed mockingbird, egg puncture, frontline defence, host–parasite coevolution, mimus saturninus, molothrus bonariensis, nest defence, shiny cowbird

2013

Digit ratio, polychromatism and associations with endurance and antipredator behaviour in male painted dragon lizards

Authors: Michael Tobler, Mo Healey, Mats Olsson

Publication/Journal: Animal Behaviour

Keywords: androgen, antipredator behaviour, colour polymorphism, ctenophorus pictus, digit ratio, endurance, oestrogen, painted dragon, prenatal

2012

Ontogeny of locomotory behaviour in the American locust, Schistocerca americana: from marathoner to broad jumper

Authors: Scott D. Kirkton, Jon F. Harrison

Publication/Journal: Animal Behaviour

Keywords: locomotion, locomotory behaviour, locust

2006

The Behavioral Ecology of Intermittent Locomotion

Authors: Donald L. Kramer, Robert L. Mclaughlin

Publication/Journal: American Zoologist

Keywords: behavior, behaviour, foraging, locomotion, paper, saltatory

2001

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