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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=geriatric

Locomotion as a Measure of Well-Being in Captive Chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes)

Authors: Sarah Neal Webb, Steven Schapiro

Publication/Journal: Animals

Keywords: chimpanzee welfare, locomotion, positive welfare

2023


Quality of Life Assessment: The Value of Longitudinal Data in Making the End-of-Life Care Decision for a Macaque (Macaca Silenus/Macaca Nemestrina)

Authors: Lindsay Simpson, Julie Grove, Ellen Bronson, Elizabeth S Herrelko

Publication/Journal: Journal of Applied Animal Welfare Science

Keywords: animal management, end-of-life decisions, quality of life, singly housed, welfare

2023


Assessing chimpanzees’ fluency of movement: applications for monitoring health and welfare

Authors: Lydia M Hopper, Benjamin R Lake, Jesse G Leinwand, Amy Fultz, Stephen R Ross

Publication/Journal: Applied Animal Behaviour Science

Keywords: aging, geriatric care, locomotion, mobility, primate, quality of life

2022


Survey of Geriatric Elephant Medical Care, Nutrition, Husbandry, and Welfare

Authors: Whitney Greene, Deena Brenner

Publication/Journal: Journal of Zoo and Wildlife Medicine

Keywords: elephants, geriatric

2020


Utilizing Camera Traps, Closed Circuit Cameras and Behavior Observation Software to Monitor Activity Budgets, Habitat Use, and Social Interactions of Zoo-Housed Asian Elephants (Elephus maximus)

Authors: Jilian M Fazio, Tony Barthel, Elizabeth W Freeman, Kay Garlick-Ott, Anne Scholle, Janine L Brown

Publication/Journal: Animals

Keywords: animal welfare, asian elephant, camera traps, ex-situ management, ZooMonitor

2020


Case Studies of the Impacts of Cataract Surgery on Crested Penguin Welfare

Authors: Matthew R. Heintz, Grace A. Fuller, Sarah J. Woodhouse, Anna Murray, Stephanie M. Allard

Publication/Journal: Journal of Applied Animal Welfare Science

Keywords: animal welfare, geriatric, macaroni penguin, phacoemulsifcation, rockhopper penguin

2019


A retrospective study of mortality in Eurasian lynx (Lynx lynx) in UK zoos

Authors: Joseph Heaver, Michael Waters

Publication/Journal: Zoo Biology

Keywords: carcinoma, disease, European, felid, zoological

2019


The flehmen response and pseudosuckling in a captive, juvenile Southern sea otter (Enhydra lutris nereis)

Authors: Heide D. Island, Julia Wengeler, Hannah Claussenius-Kalman

Publication/Journal: Zoo Biology

Keywords: flehmen, olfaction, pheromone, sea otter, stereotypy

2017


Chronic corticosterone treatment enhances extinction-induced depression in aged rats

Authors: Joseph P. Huston, Mara Komorowski, Maria A. de Souza Silva, Valéria Lamounier-Zepter, Susanne Nikolaus, Claudia Mattern, Christian P. Müller, Bianca Topic

Publication/Journal: Hormones and Behavior

Keywords: acth, chronic stress, corticosterone, depression model, despair, extinction, goal tracking

2016


A retrospective analysis of mortality in captive pygmy hippopotamus (Choeropsis liberiensis) from 1912 to 2014

Authors: Gabriella L. Flacke, Suzana Tkalčić, Beatrice Steck, Kristin Warren, Graeme B. Martin

Publication/Journal: Zoo Biology

Keywords: encephalomyocarditis virus (emcv), leptospirosis, obesity, pathology, polycystic kidney disease (pkd), stillbirth

2016


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