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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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Catcalls: exotic cats discriminate the voices of familiar caregivers

Authors: T. Crews, J. Vonk, M. McGuire

Publication/Journal: PeerJ

Keywords: *Voice/physiology, animals, caregivers, Familiar human, felid, felidae, humans, physiology, pilot projects, psychology, rearing history, recognition, Vocal discrimination

2024

Effects of different rooting materials on behaviour and welfare of finishing pigs

Authors: Ellen Marie Rosvold, Marko Ocepek, Inger Lise Andersen

Publication/Journal: Applied Animal Behaviour Science

Keywords: behaviour, environmental enrichment, finishing pigs, rooting material, welfare

2024

Relationship between Ear Temperature, Behaviour and Stress Hormones in Guinea Pigs (Cavia proellus) during Different Interactive Activities in Zoos

Authors: Misako Namiki, Toshiharu Fukayama, Takane Suzuki, Ayumi Masaiwa

Publication/Journal: Animals

Keywords: animal-visitor interaction, comparison between activities, cortisol salivary, stress assessment, zoo animal welfare

2024

Behaviors related to positive, neutral, or negative valence in Odocoileus virginianus in below ground level or ground level exhibitor and influx of visitors

Authors: Nelly Elizabeth Puc-Balam, Luis Armando Sarmiento-Franco, Pedro Geraldo González-Pech

Publication/Journal: Journal of Veterinary Behavior

Keywords: animal welfare, visitor effects, white-tailed deer, zoo

2023

Behaviors related to positive, neutral, or negative valence in Odocoileus virginianus in below-ground-level or ground-level exhibitor and influx of visitors

Authors: Nelly Elizabeth Puc-Balam, Luis Armando Sarmiento-Franco, Pedro Geraldo González-Pech

Publication/Journal: Journal of Veterinary Behavior

Keywords: Crowd noise, Exhibitor environment, habituation, ungulates, Visitors’ influx

2023

Facility Design for Ageing Wild Animals

Authors: Jon C. Coe

Publication/Journal: Optimal Wellbeing of Ageing Wild Animals in Human Care

Keywords: aging, disabled, facility design, geriatric, habitat design, personalization, welfare, wellbeing

2023

Noise interfere on feeding behaviour but not on food preference of saffron finches (Sicalis flaveola)

Authors: Renan Henriques Lage Duarte, Marcela Fortes de Oliveira Passos, Marina Vale Beirão, Afiwa Midamegbe, Robert John Young, Cristiano Schetini de Azevedo

Publication/Journal: Behavioural Processes

Keywords: animal behavior, animal welfare, finches, noise pollution

2023

Quantifying Acute Behavioral Reactions of Bali Mynas (Leucopsar rothschildi) to Environmental and Progressively Challenging Enrichment

Authors: Eli Baskir, Alayna Parsons, Marija Elden, David M Powell

Publication/Journal: Journal of Zoological and Botanical Gardens

Keywords: cognitive, glean, interaction, neophobia, peck, pluck

2023

Impacts of Socialization on Bull Asian Elephant (Elephas maximus) Stereotypical Behavior

Authors: T.S. Readyhough, S. Joseph, M. Davis, A. Moresco, A.L. Schreier

Publication/Journal: Journal of Zoological and Botanical Gardens

Keywords: animal welfare, bachelor herd, musth, stereotypy

2022

Is item hiding a good enrichment strategy to reduce stereotypic behaviors and increase social interactions in captive female spectacled bears?

Authors: Ana Julia Sant'Ana Correa, Erick Mateus Barros, Vinicius Marques Lopez, Rhainer Guillermo-Ferreira

Publication/Journal: Journal of Veterinary Behavior

Keywords: animal behavior, ethology, mammal, zoo

2022

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