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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.
URL: https://detroitzoo.org/resources/?fwp_search=invertebrate

Aquatic and Terrestrial Invertebrate Welfare

Authors: Gregory A. Lewbart, Trevor T. Zachariah

Publication/Journal: Animals

Keywords: chelicerates, coelenterates, crustaceans, echinoderms, enrichment, health, insects, invertebrates, mollusks, myriapods, welfare

2023

Assessing the Welfare of Captive Group-Housed Cockroaches, Gromphadorhina oblongonota

Authors: Danielle Free, Sarah Wolfensohn

Publication/Journal: Animals

Keywords: Animal Welfare Assessment Grid (AWAG), cockroach, group welfare, invertebrate, quality of life, sentience, welfare

2023

Ethics and Invertebrates: The Problem Is Us

Authors: Jennifer A. Mather

Publication/Journal: Animals

Keywords: animal ethics, animal welfare, invertebrates

2023

Food-related substrate preference in juveniles seastar Echinaster (Othilia) brasiliensis (Müller & Troschel,1842) in captivity

Authors: Bruna L. Maganhe, Laura S. Andrade, Laura de O. Camilo, Hugo G. Neto, Eduardo G. Sanches

Publication/Journal: Zoo Biology

Keywords: aquaculture, bio media, captive breeding, marine aquarium, marine invertebrate

2023

The Impact of Visitors on Non-Primate Species in Zoos: A Quantitative Review

Authors: Ellen Williams, Violet Hunton, Geoff Hosey, Samantha J Ward

Publication/Journal: Animals

Keywords: non-primate species, visitor effect, zoo animal welfare, zoo visitors

2023

Invisible Invertebrates: The Welfare of Invertebrates in Public Aquaria

Authors: Kerry Perkins

Publication/Journal: Animals

Keywords: aquarium, invertebrate, welfare

2023

Does Handling for Public Talks in Zoos Affect the Behaviour of Captive Mexican Red-Kneed Spiders Brachypelma hamorii?

Authors: Charlotte Gresham, Fiona Mathews, Amanda Ferguson, Jamie Mitchell, Lisa Clifforde, Dave Clarke, Lewis J. Rowden

Publication/Journal: Journal of Zoological and Botanical Gardens

Keywords: activity, enclosure use, handling, invertebrate, spiders, welfare

2022

Why Are Octopuses Going to Be the ‘Poster Child’ for Invertebrate Welfare?

Authors: Jennifer Mather

Publication/Journal: Journal of Applied Animal Welfare Science

Keywords: cephalopods, consciousness, intelligence, octopuses, welfare

2020

Effects of handling and short-term captivity: a multi-behaviour approach using red sea urchins, Mesocentrotus franciscanus

Authors: Aneesh P. H. Bose, Daniel Zayonc, Nikolaos Avrantinis, Natasha Ficzycz, Jonathan Fischer-Rush, Fiona T. Francis, Siobhan Gray, Faye Manning, Haley Robb, Coralee Schmidt, Christine Spice, Aari Umedaly, Jeff Warden, Isabelle M. Cote

Publication/Journal: PeerJ

Keywords: animal welfare, Echinoderm, invertebrate, reintroduction, relocation, stress

2019

The Welfare of Invertebrate Animals

Authors: Claudio Carere, Jennifer A Mather

Publication/Journal: The Welfare of Invertebrate Animals

Keywords: animal personality, cephalopods, cognition, crustaceans, entomology, ethics, insects, invertebrates, model invertebrates, mollusks, nocireception, pain, research ethics, sentience, suffering

2019

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