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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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Effects of different enrichment devices on some welfare indicators of post-weaned undocked piglets

Authors: E. Nannoni, L. Sardi, M. Vitali, E. Trevisi, A. Ferrari, F. Barone, M. L. Bacci, S. Barbieri, G. Martelli

Publication/Journal: Applied Animal Behaviour Science

Keywords: animal welfare, blood parameters, environmental enrichment, intensive husbandry, pig, weaners

2016

Auditing animal welfare and making practical improvements in beef-, pork- and sheep-slaughter plants

Authors: T. Grandin

Publication/Journal: Animal Welfare

Keywords: animal welfare, auditing, handling, slaughter, stunning, vocalisation, vocalization

2012

The psychology of control: Effects of control over supplementary light on welfare of marmosets

Authors: H. M. Buchanan-Smith, I. Badihi

Publication/Journal: Applied Animal Behaviour Science

Keywords: choice, controllability, illumination, laboratory, marmoset, primate

2012

Artificial illumination reduces bait-take by small rainforest mammals

Authors: Andrew J. Bengsen, Luke K. P. Leung, Steven J. Lapidge, Iain J. Gordon

Publication/Journal: Applied Animal Behaviour Science

Keywords: bait, feral pig, giving-up density, patch use, predation risk

2010

Primate Location Preference in a Double-Tier Cage: The Effects of Illumination and Cage Height

Authors: Evan L. MacLean, Sheila Roberts Prior, Michael L. Platt, Elizabeth M. Brannon

Publication/Journal: Journal of Applied Animal Welfare Science

Keywords: location preference, macaques, primates

2009

Environmental enrichment decreases responding for visual novelty

Authors: Cain, ME. Green, TA. Bardo, MT.

Publication/Journal: Behavioural Processes

Keywords: enrichment, environmental stimuli, operant conditioning, rats, social partners

2006

Light, Vision and the Welfare of Poultry

Authors: N.B. Prescott, C.M. Wathes, J.R. Jarvis

Publication/Journal: Animal Welfare

Keywords: animal welfare, behavior, behaviour, domestic poultry, environment, light, vision

2003

Use of computerized image analysis in the morphometric characterization of giant panda (Ailuropoda melanoleuca) spermatozoa obtained from the epididymis 4 hours postmortem

Authors: S. S. Pérez-Garnelo, M. Delclaux, C. Talavera, M. López, J. De la Fuente

Publication/Journal: Zoo Biology

Keywords: asma, giant panda sperm, morphology, morphometry

2003

Avian Ultraviolet Vision And Frequency-Dependent Seed Preferences

Authors: Stuart C. Church, Annabel S. L. Merrison, Toby M. M. Chamberlain

Publication/Journal: The Journal of Experimental Biology

Keywords: color vision, colour vision, foraging, frequency-dependent selection, seed preference, taeniopygia guttata, ultraviolet, zebra finch

2001

Limits to the salience of ultraviolet: Lessons from colour vision in bees and birds

Authors: Peter G. Kevan, Lars Chittka, Adrian G. Dyer

Publication/Journal: The Journal of Experimental Biology

Keywords: color constancy, colour constancy, evolution, flower colour, illumination, insect

2001

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