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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 effects of allogrooming and social network position on behavioural indicators of stress in female lion-tailed macaques (Macaca silenus)

Authors: Kerrie Yates, Christina R Stanley, Caroline M Bettridge

Publication/Journal: Behavioural Processes

Keywords: allogrooming, indirect connections, social network analysis, stress, welfare

2022

Comparative Personality Traits Assessment of Three Species of Communally Housed Captive Penguins

Authors: Giovanni Quintavalle Pastorino, Richard Preziosi, Massimo Faustini, Giulio Curone, Mariangela Albertini, Dawn Nicoll, Lorna Moffat, Romain Pizzi, Silvia Mazzola

Publication/Journal: Animals

Keywords: aptenodytes patagonicus, Eudyptes moseleyi, personality-traits, Pygocelis papua

2019

The physiological significance of the circadian dynamics of the HPA axis: Interplay between circadian rhythms, allostasis and stress resilience

Authors: Rohit Rao, Ioannis P. Androulakis

Publication/Journal: Hormones and Behavior

Keywords: allostasis, chronopharmacology, circadian rhythms, glucocorticoids, hpa axis, mathematical modeling, stress resilience

2019

Dietary management of a Hamadryas baboon (Papio hamadryas) troop to improve body and coat condition and reduce parasite burden

Authors: Francis Cabana, Praveena Jayarajah, Pei Yee Oh, Chia-Da Hsu

Publication/Journal: Journal of Zoo and Aquarium Research

Keywords: diet, dominance, fibre, primate, soluble carbohydrates, trichuris

2018

Aggression and hormones are associated with heterogeneity in parasitism and parasite dynamics in the brown mouse lemur

Authors: Sarah Zohdy, Donal Bisanzio, Stacey Tecot, Patricia C. Wright, Jukka Jernvall

Publication/Journal: Animal Behaviour

Keywords: behaviour, cortisol, lice, madagascar, primate, testosterone

2017

Drivers and consequences of variation in individual social connectivity

Authors: Allison E. Williams, Katherine E. L. Worsley-Tonks, Vanessa O. Ezenwa

Publication/Journal: Animal Behaviour

Keywords: diet quality, grant's gazelle, group living, parasite infection, social connectivity, social network analysis

2017

Equine behavioral enrichment toys as tools for non-invasive recovery of viral and host DNA

Authors: Peter A. Seeber, Sanatana E. Soilemetzidou, Marion L. East, Chris Walzer, Alex D. Greenwood

Publication/Journal: Zoo Biology

Keywords: environmental DNA, equine herpesvirus, genotyping, non-invasive sampling, zebra

2017

Improved capture of stable flies (Diptera: Muscidae) by placement of knight stick sticky fly traps protected by electric fence inside animal exhibit yards at the Smithsonian’s National Zoological Park

Authors: Jerome A. Hogsette, Gregory A. Ose

Publication/Journal: Zoo Biology

Keywords: biting fly, fly management, pesticide-free trap, solar power, stomoxys calcitrans

2017

The skin microbiome of cow-nose rays (Rhinoptera bonasus) in an aquarium touch-tank exhibit

Authors: Patrick J. Kearns, Jennifer L. Bowen, Michael F. Tlusty

Publication/Journal: Zoo Biology

Keywords: 16s rrna gene, cow-nose ray, elasmobranch, microbiome, touch-tank

2017

Primate reinfection with gastrointestinal parasites: behavioural and physiological predictors of parasite acquisition

Authors: Sagan Friant, Toni E. Ziegler, Tony L. Goldberg

Publication/Journal: Animal Behaviour

Keywords: antiparasite treatment, gastrointestinal parasite, helminth, host trait, infectious disease transmission, physiological stress, primate, protozoa, red-capped mangabey, social network

2016

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