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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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  4. Train professionals on captive exotic animal welfare best practices and policies.
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Challenges, pitfalls and surprises: development and validation of a monoclonal antibody for enzyme immunoassay of the steroid 1 alpha -hydroxycorticosterone in elasmobranch species

Authors: Catharine J. Wheaton, Natalie D. Mylniczenko, John M. Rimoldi, Rama S. V. S. Gadepalli, R. Hart, Bobbi R. O'Hara, Andrew N. Evans

Publication/Journal: General and Comparative Endocrinology

Keywords: 1α-hydroxycorticosterone, glucocorticoid, hplc, mineralocorticoid, stingray, stress

2018

First report of a hatched, hand‐reared, and released African oystercatcher

Authors: Romy Klusener, Renata Hurtado, Nicola Stander, Nola J. Parsons

Publication/Journal: Zoo Biology

Keywords: hand rearing, oystercatcher, wild animal release

2018

Crocodilian perivitelline membrane-bound sperm detection

Authors: Lauren Augustine

Publication/Journal: Zoo Biology

Keywords: advanced reproductive technologies, crocodile, fertility, membrane-bound sperm

2017

Exposing avian embryos to light affects post-hatch anti-predator fear responses

Authors: Gregory S. Archer, Joy A. Mench

Publication/Journal: Applied Animal Behaviour Science

Keywords: avian, embryo, fear, incubation, lateralization, light

2017

Application of video recording technology to improve husbandry and reproduction in the carmine bee-eater (Merops n. nubicus)

Authors: Gina M. Ferrie, Christy Sky, Paul J. Schutz, Glorieli Quinones, Shawnlei Breeding, Chelle Plasse, Katherine A. Leighty, Tammie L. Bettinger

Publication/Journal: Zoo Biology

Keywords: bird, breeding, chick, egg, nest box, video

2016

Chelonian perivitelline membrane-bound sperm detection: A new breeding management tool

Authors: Kaitlin Croyle, Paul Gibbons, Christine Light, Eric Goode, Barbara Durrant, Thomas Jensen

Publication/Journal: Zoo Biology

Keywords: chelonian, conservation, fertility assessment, pvm, sperm, tortoise, turtle

2016

Husbandry and propagation of the Chinese big-headed turtle (Platysternon megacephalum) at the Wildlife Conservation Society’s Prospect Park Zoo

Authors: Nichole Shelmidine, Brittany Murphy, Katelyn Massarone

Publication/Journal: Zoo Biology

Keywords: captive breeding, hibernation, incubation

2016

Minutes matter: brief hatching asynchrony adversely affects late-hatched hihi nestlings, but not life beyond the nest

Authors: Kirsty J. MacLeod, Patricia Brekke, John G. Ewen, Rose Thorogood

Publication/Journal: Animal Behaviour

Keywords: brood hierarchies, carotenoids, hatching asynchrony, maternal effects, notiomystis cincta

2016

Reproduction, social behaviour and captive husbandry in the eastern grass owl (Tyto longimembris)

Authors: Ric Anthony Dunlop, Philip Pain

Publication/Journal: Journal of Zoo and Aquarium Research

Keywords: animal husbandry, owl

2016

Sex-specific food provisioning patterns by parents in the asynchronously hatching European hoopoe

Authors: Sophie Ryser, Nicolas Guillod, Claire Bottini, Raphaël Arlettaz, Alain Jacot

Publication/Journal: Animal Behaviour

Keywords: brood reduction, hatching asynchrony, hoopoe, prey size, sex-specific feeding pattern

2016

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