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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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Forest access restores foraging and ranging behavior in captive sifakas

Authors: Lydia K Greene, Jean‐Basile Andriambeloson, Marina B Blanco, Erin E Ehmke

Publication/Journal: Zoo Biology

Keywords: animal welfare, foraging, lemur

2022

Can bees simultaneously engage in adaptive foraging behaviour and attend to cryptic predators?

Authors: Mu-Yun Wang, Thomas C. Ings, Michael J. Proulx, Lars Chittka

Publication/Journal: Animal Behaviour

Keywords: attention, bombus terrestris, bumblebee, foraging, predator avoidance, predator crypsis, visual search

2013

Diet, Activity, Habitat Use, and Ranging of Two Neighboring Groups of Food-Enhanced Long-Tailed Macaques (Macaca fascicularis)

Authors: John Chih Mun Sha, Goro Hanya

Publication/Journal: American Journal of Primatology

Keywords: behavior, diet, habitat use, macaca fascicularis, ranging

2013

Feeding Ecology of Northern Bearded Sakis (Chiropotes sagulatus) in Guyana

Authors: Christopher A. Shaffer

Publication/Journal: American Journal of Primatology

Keywords: fallback foods, pitheciini, seed predator

2013

Foods Eaten by the Sichuan Snub-Nosed Monkey (Rhinopithecus roxellana) in Shennongjia National Nature Reserve, China, in Relation to Nutritional Chemistry

Authors: Xuecong Liu, Craig B. Stanford, Jingyuan Yang, H. U. I. Yao, Yiming Li

Publication/Journal: American Journal of Primatology

Keywords: diet, lichen, nutritional chemistry, rhinopithecus roxellana

2013

Partial replacement of an artificial nectar diet with native browse for feather-tail gliders (Acrobates pygmaeus) in captivity

Authors: Ella A. Herrmann, Kimberly Vinette Herrin, Wendy Gleen, Paul Davies, Rodd Stapley, Vanessa Stebbings, Joanna Wiszniewski, Rebecca Spindler, Graham J. Faichney, Alexandre V. Chaves

Publication/Journal: Zoo Biology

Keywords: acrobates pygmaeus, behavioral, captivity, feather-tail glider, live weight, nutritional

2013

Temporal reward variability promotes sampling of a new flower type by bumblebees

Authors: Tamar Keasar, Uzi Motro, Avi Shmida

Publication/Journal: Animal Behaviour

Keywords: artificial flower, bombus, exploitation–exploration trade-off, foraging, handling time, learning, pollination, travel time

2013

Responses of Javan Gibbon (Hylobates moloch) Groups in Submontane Forest to Monthly Variation in Food Availability: Evidence for Variation on a Fine Spatial Scale

Authors: Sanha Kim, Susan Lappan, Jae C. Choe

Publication/Journal: American Journal of Primatology

Keywords: fbf, feeding strategies, flowers, food abundance, phenology

2012

Estimating the diet of urban birds: The problems of anthropogenic food and food digestibility

Authors: I. Ottoni, F. Deoliveira, R. Young

Publication/Journal: Applied Animal Behaviour Science

Keywords: anthropogenic food, behavioral observations, behavioural observations, diet, digestibility, faecal analysis, urban ecology

2009

Methods for calculating activity budgets compared: a case study using orangutans

Authors: Mark E. Harrison, Erin R. Vogel, Helen C. Morrogh-Bernard, Maria A. van Noordwijk

Publication/Journal: American Journal of Primatology

Keywords: activity budget, computational methods, focal-animal follows, orangutans, sample size

2009

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