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

The Effect of Visitor Number on the Behavior of Zoo-Housed Macropods

Authors: Jessica Meade, Vicky A Melfi, Melanie Keith, Alicia L Burns

Publication/Journal: Anthrozoös

Keywords: animal welfare, behavior, free-range exhibits, human-animal interaction, macropod, vigilance, visitor effect, zoo

2021

Effects of visitor presence and crowd size on zoo-housed red kangaroos (Macropus rufus) during and after a COVID-19 closure

Authors: M Jones, KN Gartland, G Fuller

Publication/Journal: Animal Behavior and Cognition

Keywords: macropods, Red kangaroo, visitor effects, walk-through habitat, welfare, zoo

2021

Successful transfer of a Goodfellow’s tree kangaroo (Dendrolagus goodfellowi) pouch young to a yellow-footed rock wallaby (Petrogale xanthopus) surrogate

Authors: David J. McLelland, Kate Fielder, Gayl Males, Nathan Langley, David Schultz

Publication/Journal: Zoo Biology

Keywords: assisted reproduction, cross-foster, macropod, zoo

2015

A welfare assessment of methods used for harvesting, hunting and population control of kangaroos and wallabies

Authors: K. A. Descovich, I. J. McDonald, A. Tribe, C. J. C. Phillips

Publication/Journal: Animal Welfare

Keywords: animal welfare, culling, lethal control, macropod, non-lethal control, population management

2015

Urolithiasis in a captive group of Tammar wallabies (Macropus eugenii)

Authors: Mátyás Liptovszky, Endre Sós, Balázs Bende, Edina Perge, Viktor Molnár

Publication/Journal: Zoo Biology

Keywords: australian mammals, macropods, marsupials, renal, urinary disease

2014

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