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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.
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More Than Just Kibbles: Keeper Familiarity and Food Can Affect Bonobo Behavior

Authors: Marta Caselli, Emilio Russo, Jean-Pascal Guéry, Elisa Demuru, Ivan Norscia

Publication/Journal: Animals

Keywords: animal welfare, food, keeper familiarity, pan paniscus, social behavior

2023

The Science of Animal Welfare: Understanding What Animals Want

Authors: Marian Stamp Dawkins

Publication/Journal:

Keywords: animal welfare

2021

Orangutans’ Comprehension of Zoo Keepers’ Communicative Signals

Authors: Guillaume Dezecache, Aude Bourgeois, Christophe Bazin, Philippe Schlenker, Emmanuel Chemla, Audrey Maille

Publication/Journal: Animals

Keywords: animal welfare, gestures, inter-species communication, medical training, orangutans, speech

2019

Are domestic pigs (Sus scrofa domestica) able to use complex human-given cues to find a hidden reward?

Authors: C. Nawroth, M. Ebersbach, E. Von Borell

Publication/Journal: Animal Welfare

Keywords: animal welfare, domestic pigs, human-animal interaction, human-given cues, object choice paradigm, pointing gesture

2016

Emotions in dogs being petted by a familiar or unfamiliar person: Validating behavioural indicators of emotional states using heart rate variability

Authors: Franziska Kuhne, Johanna C. Hößler, Rainer Struwe

Publication/Journal: Applied Animal Behaviour Science

Keywords: conflict-related behaviour, heart rate variability, human–dog interaction, tactile communication

2014

Considering the role of social dynamics and positional behavior in gestural communication research

Authors: Lindsey W. Smith, Roberto A. Delgado

Publication/Journal: American Journal of Primatology

Keywords: african apes, gesture, language evolution, positional behavior, social dynamics

2013

Manual laterality for pointing gestures compared to grasping actions in guenons and mangabeys

Authors: Audrey Maille, Amandine Chapelain, Laure Déruti, Philippe Bec, Catherine Blois-Heulin

Publication/Journal: Animal Behaviour

Keywords: broca's homologue, campbell's monkey, cercocebus torquatus, cercopithecus campbelli, communicative signal, hand preference, hemispheric specialization, red-capped mangabey

2013

Effects of human–dog familiarity on dogs’ behavioural responses to petting

Authors: Franziska Kuhne, Johanna C. Hößler, Rainer Struwe

Publication/Journal: Applied Animal Behaviour Science

Keywords: behavioural response, dog, human–dog interaction, tactile communication

2012

Understanding of human communicative motives in domestic dogs

Authors: Helene Pettersson, Juliane Kaminski, Esther Herrmann, Michael Tomasello

Publication/Journal: Applied Animal Behaviour Science

Keywords: communicative motive, competition, cooperation, domestic dog, pointing gesture

2011

Token transfers among great apes (Gorilla gorilla, Pongo pygmaeus, Pan paniscus, and Pan troglodytes): Species differences, gestural requests, and reciprocal exchange

Authors: Marie Pelé, Valérie Dufour, Bernard Thierry, Josep Call

Publication/Journal: Journal of Comparative Psychology

Keywords: bonobos, chimpanzees, gestural requests, gorilla gorilla, gorillas, great apes, orangutans, pan paniscus, pan troglodytes, pongo pygmaeus, primates, reciprocity, token transfers

2009

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