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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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Does Observer Presence Modify the Behavior and Enclosure Use of Captive Edwards’ Pheasants?

Authors: Rhiannon Amy Hoy, James Edward Brereton

Publication/Journal: Journal of Zoological and Botanical Gardens

Keywords: enclosure use, Lophura edwardsi, pheasantry, Spread of participation index, welfare

2022


Discrimination of Acoustic Stimuli and Maintenance of Graded Alarm Call Structure in Captive Meerkats

Authors: Sebastian Schneider, Sarah Goettlich, Charlette Diercks, Paul Wilhelm Dierkes

Publication/Journal: Animals

Keywords: acoustic features, alarm calls, animal welfare, bioacoustics, fuzzy clustering, graded structure, LASSO algorithm, meerkats, natural behavior, playback experiment, suricates, vocalization, zoo

2021


Bubble trails, bursts, rings, and more: A review of multiple bubble types produced by cetaceans

Authors: K. R. Moreno, R. P. Macgregor

Publication/Journal: Animal Behavior and Cognition

Keywords: bubble, bubble burst, bubble ring, bubble trail, cetacean behavior

2019


Aggressive behaviour at regrouping is a poor predictor of chronic aggression in stable social groups

Authors: Simon P. Turner, Ian M. Nevison, Suzanne Desire, Irene Camerlink, Rainer Roehe, Sarah H. Ison, Marianne Farish, Mhairi C. Jack, Richard B. D’Eath

Publication/Journal: Applied Animal Behaviour Science

Keywords: aggression, cluster analysis, fighting, lesion, pig, social

2017


The role of weighted and topological network information to understand animal social networks: a null model approach

Authors: Robert W. Rankin, Janet Mann, Lisa Singh, Eric M. Patterson, Ewa Krzyszczyk, Lars Bejder

Publication/Journal: Animal Behaviour

Keywords: bias, bottlenose dolphin, community structure, maximum entropy, network topology, social network

2016


Network characteristics and development of social structure of agonistic behaviour in pigs across three repeated rehousing and mixing events

Authors: Kathrin Büttner, Katharina Scheffler, Irena Czycholl, Joachim Krieter

Publication/Journal: Applied Animal Behaviour Science

Keywords: agonistic behaviour, group level, pigs, social network analysis

2015


Welfare Quality® parameters do not always reflect hen behaviour across the lay cycle in non-cage laying hens

Authors: C. Daigle, J. Siegford

Publication/Journal: Animal Welfare

Keywords: animal welfare, behaviour, group welfare, laying hen, outcome-based measures, welfare quality®

2014


Ecology of reproduction in Sanje mangabeys (Cercocebus sanjei): Dietary strategies and energetic condition during a high fruit period

Authors: Gráinne Michelle McCabe, David Fernández, Carolyn L. Ehardt

Publication/Journal: American Journal of Primatology

Keywords: capital breeding, nutrition, ovarian hormones, urinary c-peptide

2013


Flocking for food or flockmates?

Authors: Lucy Asher, Lisa M. Collins, Dirk U. Pfeiffer, Christine J. Nicol

Publication/Journal: Applied Animal Behaviour Science

Keywords: agent-based model, group cohesion, group movements, laying hens, leadership

2013


Fortune favours the aggressive: territory quality and behavioural syndromes in song sparrows, Melospiza melodia

Authors: Jennifer Scales, Jeremy Hyman, Melissa Hughes

Publication/Journal: Animal Behaviour

Keywords: aggression, boldness, melospiza melodia, song sparrow, territory quality

2013


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