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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.
URL: https://detroitzoo.org/resources/?fwp_search=feelings%20of%20uncertainty

Optimism about Measuring Animal Feelings

Authors: Heather Browning, Walter Veit

Publication/Journal: Asian Bioethics Review

Keywords:

2023


Frog in the Well: A Review of the Scientific Literature for Evidence of Amphibian Sentience

Authors: Helen Lambert, Angie Elwin, Neil D’Cruze

Publication/Journal: Applied Animal Behaviour Science

Keywords: amphibian, pet trade, sentience

2022


The More the Merrier? Zoo Visitors’ Affective Responses and Perceptions of Welfare across an Increase in Giraffe Density

Authors: Wilson C Sherman, Darren E Minier, Caterina N Meyers, Michelle L Myers

Publication/Journal: Journal of Zoological and Botanical Gardens

Keywords: affective experience, perceptions of animal welfare, visitor studies, zoos and aquariums

2022


Chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes) show subtle signs of uncertainty when choices are more difficult

Authors: Matthias Allritz, Emma Suvi McEwen, Josep Call

Publication/Journal: Cognition

Keywords: chimpanzee, epistemic emotions, feelings of uncertainty, procedural metacognition, transitive inference

2021


The Science of Animal Welfare: Understanding What Animals Want

Authors: Marian Stamp Dawkins

Publication/Journal:

Keywords: animal welfare

2021


Welfare Assessment for Captive Anseriformes: A Guide for Practitioners and Animal Keepers

Authors: Paul Rose, Michelle O’Brien

Publication/Journal: Animals

Keywords: animal behavior, animal welfare, aviculture, husbandry evidence, waterfowl, welfare assessment, wildfowl, zoo

2020


Welfare Assessment for Captive Anseriformes: A Guide for Practitioners and Animal Keepers

Authors: Paul Rose, Michelle O’Brien

Publication/Journal: Animals

Keywords: animal behaviour, animal welfare, aviculture, husbandry evidence, waterfowl, welfare assessment, wildfowl, zoo

2020


Abnormal behavior and the self-regulation of motivational state

Authors: Donald M. Broom

Publication/Journal: Journal of Veterinary Behavior

Keywords: abnormal behavior, animal welfare, cognition, emotion, feelings, motivation, stereotypy

2019


Lessons from 30 years of population viability analysis of wildlife populations

Authors: Robert C. Lacy

Publication/Journal: Zoo Biology

Keywords: conservation planning, ex situ, extinction, in situ, simulation, threat assessment, uncertainty

2019


Personality types vary in their personal and social information use

Authors: Judith A. H. Smit, Kees van Oers

Publication/Journal: Animal Behaviour

Keywords: personal information, personality, sampling behaviour, social information, video

2019


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