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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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Impact of maternal stress and nutrition on behavioural and physiological outcomes in young lambs

Authors: J. A. Rooke, G. Arnott, C. M. Dwyer, K. M. D. Rutherford

Publication/Journal: Animal Welfare

Keywords: animal welfare, gestation, offspring response, practical application, sheep, stress

2017

The Impact of Group Size on Welfare Indicators of Ewes during Pregnancy

Authors: X. Averos, I. B. de Heredia, R. Ruiz, I. Estevez

Publication/Journal: Plos One

Keywords: ewes, group-size, pregnancy, welfare indicators

2016

The sucking behaviour and milk intake of one- to three-week-old triplet lambs during natural and competitive suckling situations

Authors: L. A. Van Welie, S. A. Clews, N. J. Beausoleil, R. Hickson, K. Kongara, P. R. Kenyon, S. T. Morris

Publication/Journal: Applied Animal Behaviour Science

Keywords: behaviour, lambs, milk intake, sheep, sucking, triplets

2016

Filial attachment in sheep: Similarities and differences between ewe-lamb and human-lamb relationships

Authors: Raymond Nowak, Xavier Boivin

Publication/Journal: Applied Animal Behaviour Science

Keywords: affiliation, attachment, cognition, comfort, distress, emotion, gentling, human, lamb, mother, oxytocin, sensitive period, stroking, suckling

2015

Mother–young behaviours at lambing in grazing ewes: Effects of lamb sex and food restriction in pregnancy

Authors: Aline Freitas-de-Melo, Rodolfo Ungerfeld, Maria José Hötzel, Maria José Abud, Andrea Alvarez-Oxiley, Agustín Orihuela, Juan Pablo Damián, Raquel Pérez-Clariget

Publication/Journal: Applied Animal Behaviour Science

Keywords: attachment, lamb behaviour, maternal behaviour, pasture allowance, sheep, undernutrition

2015

Space allowance during gestation and early maternal separation: Effects on the fear response and social motivation of lambs

Authors: Xavier Averós, Joanna Marchewka, Ignacia Beltrán de Heredia, Adroaldo Jose Zanella, Roberto Ruiz, Inma Estevez

Publication/Journal: Applied Animal Behaviour Science

Keywords: fearfulness, maternal separation, pre-natal stress, sheep, social motivation, space allowance, welfare

2015

The behaviour of gestating dairy ewes under different space allowances

Authors: Xavier Averós, Areta Lorea, Ignacia Beltrán de Heredia, Roberto Ruiz, Joanna Marchewka, Josune Arranz, Inma Estevez

Publication/Journal: Applied Animal Behaviour Science

Keywords: dairy ewe, pregnancy, social behaviour, space allowance, welfare

2014

Impact of rapid treatment of sheep lame with footrot on welfare and economics and farmer attitudes to lameness in sheep

Authors: L. E. Green, J. Kaler, G. J. Wassink, E. M. King, R. Grogono Thomas

Publication/Journal: Animal Welfare

Keywords: animal welfare, dichelobacter nodosus, footrot, lameness, sheep, treatment control

2012

Interactions between profit and welfare on extensive sheep farms

Authors: A. W. Stott, B. Vosough Ahmadi, C. M. Dwyer, B. Kupiec, C. Morgan-Davies, C. E. Milne, S. Ringrose, P. Goddard, K. Phillips, A. Waterhouse

Publication/Journal: Animal Welfare

Keywords: animal welfare, economics, linear programming, profit, service quality modelling, sheep

2012

Multiple exposures to familiar conspecific withdrawal is a novel robust stress paradigm in ewes

Authors: Vanessa Guesdon, Séverine Ligout, Philippe Delagrange, Michael Spedding, Frédéric Lévy, Anne-Lyse Laine, Benoît Malpaux, Elodie Chaillou

Publication/Journal: Physiology & Behavior

Keywords: anticipatory fear reaction, behavior, cortisol, habituation, repeated stress, sheep, social isolation

2012

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