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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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How environmental enrichment affects behavioral and glucocorticoid responses in captive blue-and-yellow macaws (Ara ararauna)

Authors: Ana Claudia de Almeida, Rupert Palme, Nei Moreira

Publication/Journal: Applied Animal Behaviour Science

Keywords: abnormal behavior, animal welfare, corticosterone, quality of life, stress

2018

Access to litter during rearing and environmental enrichment during production reduce fearfulness in adult laying hens

Authors: Margrethe Brantsæter, Fernanda M. Tahamtani, Janicke Nordgreen, Ellen Sandberg, Tone Beate Hansen, T. Bas Rodenburg, Randi Oppermann Moe, Andrew Michael Janczak

Publication/Journal: Applied Animal Behaviour Science

Keywords: environmental enrichment, fearfulness, laying hen, litter, rearing, welfare

2017

Application of Free Choice Profiling to assess the emotional state of dogs housed in shelter environments

Authors: Laura Arena, Franҫoise Wemelsfelder, Stefano Messori, Nicola Ferri, Shanis Barnard

Publication/Journal: Applied Animal Behaviour Science

Keywords: emotions, free choice profiling, generalised procrustes analysis, qualitative behavioural assessment, shelter dogs, welfare

2017

Contact with cows during the young age increases social competence and lowers the cardiac stress reaction in dairy calves

Authors: Cornelia Buchli, Alice Raselli, Rupert Bruckmaier, Edna Hillmann

Publication/Journal: Applied Animal Behaviour Science

Keywords: alternative calf rearing, confrontation, dairy calves, dam rearing, isolation, stress reactivity

2017

Effect of free-range access, shelter type and weather conditions on free-range use and welfare of slow-growing broiler chickens

Authors: Lisanne M. Stadig, T. Bas Rodenburg, Bart Ampe, Bert Reubens, Frank A. M. Tuyttens

Publication/Journal: Applied Animal Behaviour Science

Keywords: artificial shelter, fearfulness, leg health, outdoor, poultry, short rotation coppice

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

A desired profile of horse personality – A survey study of Polish equestrians based on a new approach to equine temperament and character

Authors: Mira Suwała, Aleksandra Górecka-Bruzda, Marta Walczak, John Ensminger, Tadeusz Jezierski

Publication/Journal: Applied Animal Behaviour Science

Keywords: character, dimensions, horse, personality, survey, temperament

2016

Development of personality tests to use in the field, stable over time and across situations, and linked to horses’ show jumping performance

Authors: Léa Lansade, Pascaline Philippon, Lucile Hervé, Marianne Vidament

Publication/Journal: Applied Animal Behaviour Science

Keywords: activity, fearfulness, reactivity, rideability, tactile sensitivity, temperament

2016

The effects of food-related environmental complexity on litter directed behaviour, fear and exploration of novel stimuli in young broiler chickens

Authors: Katarina Pichova, Janicke Nordgreen, Christine Leterrier, Lubor Kostal, Randi Oppermann Moe

Publication/Journal: Applied Animal Behaviour Science

Keywords: animal welfare, enrichment, feeding behaviour, motivation

2016

Growing into the self: the development of personality in rhesus macaques

Authors: Christoph von Borell, Lars Kulik, Anja Widdig

Publication/Journal: Animal Behaviour

Keywords: animal personality, behavioural character, behavioural development, behavioural syndrome, first maternity, natal dispersal, nonhuman primate, rhesus macaques, temperament

2016

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