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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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Southern Sea Otter Rehabilitation: Lessons and Impacts from the Monterey Bay Aquarium

Authors: Leilani Konrad, Jessica A Fujii, Sandrine Hazan, Andrew B Johnson, Karl A Mayer, Michael J Murray, Teri E Nicholson, Michelle M Staedler, Colleen Young

Publication/Journal: Journal of Zoological and Botanical Gardens

Keywords: aquarium, collaboration, southern sea otter, surrogacy, wildlife rehabilitation

2022

Choice, Control and Computers: Empowering Wildlife in Human Care

Authors: Jon Coe, Julia Hoy

Publication/Journal: Multimodal Technologies and Interaction

Keywords: animal-centered technology (ACT), captive, choice, conservation, enrichment, exhibit, reintroduction, wildlife, zoo

2020

Comparative Personality Traits Assessment of Three Species of Communally Housed Captive Penguins

Authors: Giovanni Quintavalle Pastorino, Richard Preziosi, Massimo Faustini, Giulio Curone, Mariangela Albertini, Dawn Nicoll, Lorna Moffat, Romain Pizzi, Silvia Mazzola

Publication/Journal: Animals

Keywords: aptenodytes patagonicus, Eudyptes moseleyi, personality-traits, Pygocelis papua

2019

Social personality in sheep: Can social strategies predict individual differences in cognitive abilities, morphology features, and reproductive success?

Authors: Genaro C. Miranda-de la Lama, María Pascual-Alonso, Lorena Aguayo-Ulloa, Wilmer S. Sepúlveda, Morris Villarroel, Gustavo A. María

Publication/Journal: Journal of Veterinary Behavior

Keywords: cognitive abilities, reproductive success, sheep, social personality, social strategies

2019

Abnormal repetitive behaviours in captive birds: a Tinbergian review

Authors: Emma Mellor, Ben Brilot, Sarah Collins

Publication/Journal: Applied Animal Behaviour Science

Keywords: abnormal repetitive behaviour, bird welfare, causation, development, evolution, function

2018

A comparison of personality in the common and Bolivian squirrel monkey (Saimiri sciureus and Saimiri boliviensis)

Authors: Vanessa A. D. Wilson, Miho Inoue-Murayama, Alexander Weiss

Publication/Journal: Journal of Comparative Psychology

Keywords: agreeableness, animal ethology, animal personality, assertiveness, likert scales, monkeys, neuroticism, openness to experience, phylogenesis, primates (nonhuman)

2018

“I am going to groom you”: Multiple forms of play fighting in gray mouse lemurs (Microcebus murinus)

Authors: Sergio M. Pellis, Vivien C. Pellis

Publication/Journal: Journal of Comparative Psychology

Keywords: animal aggressive behavior, animal grooming behavior, animal play, animal sexual behavior, lemurs

2018

Pharmacological therapy with a combination of alprazolam and fluoxetine and use of the trace element lithium gluconate for treating anxiety disorders and aggression in dogs

Authors: Stefania Pineda, Bernadette Anzola, Verónica Ruso, Miguel Ibáñez, Álvaro Olivares

Publication/Journal: Journal of Veterinary Behavior

Keywords: alprazolam, anxiety, benzodiazepine, fluoxetine, lithium

2018

Aggression and hormones are associated with heterogeneity in parasitism and parasite dynamics in the brown mouse lemur

Authors: Sarah Zohdy, Donal Bisanzio, Stacey Tecot, Patricia C. Wright, Jukka Jernvall

Publication/Journal: Animal Behaviour

Keywords: behaviour, cortisol, lice, madagascar, primate, testosterone

2017

Bestial boredom: a biological perspective on animal boredom and suggestions for its scientific investigation

Authors: Charlotte C. Burn

Publication/Journal: Animal Behaviour

Keywords: *animal cognition, animal behaviour, animal welfare, boredom, environmental enrichment, motivation, novelty, psychobiology, time perception

2017

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