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  2. Conduct and facilitate welfare assessments and applied welfare research on captive exotic animals.
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Metabolic rate and body size are linked with perception of temporal information

Authors: Kevin Healy, Luke McNally, Graeme D. Ruxton, Natalie Cooper, Andrew L. Jackson

Publication/Journal: Animal Behaviour

Keywords: comparative analysis, critical flicker fusion, evolutionary ecology, predator–prey, temporal resolution

2013

Parents take both size and conspicuousness into account when feeding nestlings in dark cavity nests

Authors: Karen L. Wiebe, Tore Slagsvold

Publication/Journal: Animal Behaviour

Keywords: begging, bird, coloration, detection, hatching asynchrony, provisioning

2012

Short-term physiological and behavioural effects of high- versus low-frequency fluorescent light on captive birds

Authors: J. E. Evans, E. L. Smith, A. T. D. Bennett, I. C. Cuthill, K. L. Buchanan

Publication/Journal: Animal Behaviour

Keywords: captivebird, corticosterone, flicker frequency, fluorescent lighting, light environment, sturnus vulgaris, welfare

2012

A Comparison of Two Methods for Assessing Critical Flicker Fusion Frequency in Hens

Authors: R. C. R. Railton, T. M. Foster., W. Temple

Publication/Journal: Behavioural Processes

Keywords: conditional discrimination, critical flicker fusion frequency, hens, psychophysics, two-alternative forced-choice

2009

Color vision in horses- Deficiencies identified using Pseudoisochromatic plate test

Authors: Hanggi, Evelyn B, Ingersoll, Jerry F., Waggoner, Terrace L.

Publication/Journal: Journal of Comparative Psychology

Keywords: color vision deficiency, dichromats, discrimination, equine, horse

2007

The effect of flicker from fluorescent lights on mate choice in captive birds

Authors: J. Evans, I. Cuthill, A. Bennett

Publication/Journal: Animal Behaviour

Keywords: birds, captivity, european starlings, flicker, fluorescent lights, mate choice, sturnus vulgaris, welfare

2006

Visual pigments of marine carnivores: pinnipeds, polar bear, and sea otter

Authors: DH Levenson, PJ Ponganis, MA Crognale, JF 2nd Deegan, A Dizon, GH Jacobs

Publication/Journal: Journal of Comparative Physiology A

Keywords: opsins, pinnipeds, polar bear sea otter, visual pigments

2006

Does the flicker frequency of fluorescent lighting affect the welfare of captive European starlings?

Authors: V. Greenwood

Publication/Journal: Applied Animal Behaviour Science

Keywords: captive birds, flicker frequency, fluorescent lighting, light environment, sturnus vulgaris, welfare

2004

Light, Vision and the Welfare of Poultry

Authors: N.B. Prescott, C.M. Wathes, J.R. Jarvis

Publication/Journal: Animal Welfare

Keywords: animal welfare, behavior, behaviour, domestic poultry, environment, light, vision

2003

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