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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 effect of age and method of gas delivery on carbon dioxide euthanasia of pigs

Authors: M. A. Sutherland, P. J. Bryer, B. L. Backus

Publication/Journal: Animal Welfare

Keywords: age, animal welfare, behaviour, carbon dioxide, euthanasia, pigs

2017


Technical contribution: evaluation of the efficacy of a non-penetrating captive bolt to euthanase dairy goat kids up to 30 days of age

Authors: M. A. Sutherland, T. J. Watson, S. T. Millman

Publication/Journal: Animal Welfare

Keywords: animal welfare, behaviour, euthanasia, goats, insensibility, non-penetrating captive bolt

2017


An assessment of animal welfare for the culling of peri-urban kangaroos

Authors: J. O. Hampton, D. M. Forsyth

Publication/Journal: Wildlife Research

Keywords: eastern grey kangaroos, ecology, european rabbit, impala aepyceros-melampus, macropus-giganteus, management, meat quality, population control, populations, responses, stress response, urban areas, urban ecology, white-tailed deer, wildlife management, zoology

2016


Evaluation of the efficacy of a non-penetrating captive bolt to euthanase neonatal goats up to 48 hours of age

Authors: M. A. Sutherland, T. J. Watson, C. B. Johnson, S. T. Millman

Publication/Journal: Animal Welfare

Keywords: animal welfare, electroencephalogram, euthanasia, goats, insensibility, non-penetrating captive bolt

2016


Testing three measures of mouse insensibility following induction with isoflurane or carbon dioxide gas for a more humane euthanasia

Authors: Carly M. Moody, I. Joanna Makowska, Daniel M. Weary

Publication/Journal: Applied Animal Behaviour Science

Keywords: mice, pedal withdrawal reflex, recumbency, righting reflex

2015


A comparison of handling methods relevant to the religious slaughter of sheep

Authors: L. S. W. Bates, E. A. Ford, S. N. Brown, G. J. Richards, P. J. Hadley, S. B. Wotton, T. G. Knowles

Publication/Journal: Animal Welfare

Keywords: animal welfare, lamb, non-stun religious slaughter, pre-slaughter handling, sheep, v-shaped restrainer

2014


Evaluation of microwave energy as a humane stunning technique based on electroencephalography (EEG) of anaesthetised cattle

Authors: J. L. Rault, P. H. Hemsworth, P. L. Cakebread, D. J. Mellor, C. B. Johnson

Publication/Journal: Animal Welfare

Keywords: animal welfare, electromagnetic, euthanasia, insensibility, pre-slaughter, slaughter

2014


Electromagnetic induction of insensibility in animals: a review

Authors: A. Small, D. McLean, J. S. Owen, J. Ralph

Publication/Journal: Animal Welfare

Keywords: animal welfare, cattle, humane slaughter, livestock, recoverable stun, stunning

2013


Preliminary investigations into the use of microwave energy for reversible stunning of sheep

Authors: A. Small, D. McLean, H. Keates, J. S. Owen, J. Ralph

Publication/Journal: Animal Welfare

Keywords: animal welfare, electromagnetic, humane slaughter, insensibility stun, sheep, syncope

2013


A Veterinary and Behavioral Analysis of Dolphin Killing Methods Currently Used in the “Drive Hunt” in Taiji, Japan

Authors: Andrew Butterworth, Philippa Brakes, Courtney S. Vail, Diana Reiss

Publication/Journal: Journal of Applied Animal Welfare Science

Keywords: dolphin, japan, killing methods, Taiji

2013


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