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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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The behavioral response of the crab-eating fox to olfactory enrichment

Authors: MP Figueira, FFR Silva, A Ribeiro, IO Silva, V Boere

Publication/Journal: Applied Animal Behaviour Science

Keywords: animal welfare, canids, Cerdocyon thous, environmental enrichment, olfactory stimulus

2021

Anthropogenic noise pollution reverses grouping behaviour in hermit crabs

Authors: Svenja Tidau, Mark Briffa

Publication/Journal: Animal Behaviour

Keywords: anthropogenic noise, environmental change, grouping preference, hermit crabs, intraspecific interaction, sensory environment

2019

Electrical stunning of edible crabs (Cancer pagurus): from single experiments to commercial practice

Authors: B. Roth, E. Grimsbø

Publication/Journal: Animal Welfare

Keywords: animal welfare, crab, crustacean, electricity, slaughter, stunning

2016

Run, Spot, run : the ethics of keeping pets

Authors: Jessica Pierce

Publication/Journal:

Keywords: companion animal ethics, pets

2016

Japanese Spider Crab Care Manual

Authors: AZA Aquatic Invertebrate Taxon Advisory Group

Publication/Journal:

Keywords: aza, care manual, crab, japanese spider crab

2014

Asymmetric effects of contaminant exposure during asymmetric contests in the hermit crab Pagurus bernhardus

Authors: Stephen J. White, Richard K. Pipe, Andrew Fisher, Mark Briffa

Publication/Journal: Animal Behaviour

Keywords: anthropogenic impact, copper, decision-making, hermit crab, pagurus bernhardus, pollutant

2013

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

How does temperature affect behaviour? Multilevel analysis of plasticity, personality and predictability in hermit crabs

Authors: Mark Briffa, Danielle Bridger, Peter A. Biro

Publication/Journal: Animal Behaviour

Keywords: boldness, hermit crab, iiv, pagurus bernhardus, personality, plasticity, startle response

2013

Noise negatively affects foraging and antipredator behaviour in shore crabs

Authors: Matthew A. Wale, Stephen D. Simpson, Andrew N. Radford

Publication/Journal: Animal Behaviour

Keywords: carcinus maenas, distraction, environmental change, invertebrate behaviour, pollution, predation risk, shore crab, starvation risk, stress

2013

Increasing breeding behaviors in a captive colony of Northern Bald Ibis through conspecific acoustic enrichment

Authors: J. A. Clark, A. Haseley, G. Van Genderen, M. Hofling, N. J. Clum

Publication/Journal: Zoo Biology

Keywords: geronticus eremita, hermit ibis, social facilitation, waldrapp ibis

2012

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