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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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Diel and infradian (7-day) activity rhythms in Mexican spider monkeys (Ateles geoffroyi) kept with and without visitor contact

Authors: Jairo Muñoz-Delgado, Sergio Pérez-Galicia, José Carlos Sánchez-Ferrer, Domingo Canales Espinosa, Hans G. Erkert

Publication/Journal: American Journal of Primatology

Keywords: activity pattern, circadian rhythm, circaseptan rhythm, masking effect, zoo visitor effect

2018


A survey of sow management at farrowing in the UK

Authors: S. H. Ison, S. Jarvis, K. M. D. Rutherford

Publication/Journal: Animal Welfare

Keywords: animal welfare, farrowing, pain, pigs, sow management, survey

2016


The influence of ambient noise on maternal behavior in a Bornean sun bear (Helarctos malayanus euryspilus)

Authors: Megan A. Owen, Suzanne Hall, Lisa Bryant, Ronald R. Swaisgood

Publication/Journal: Zoo Biology

Keywords: ambient noise, disturbance, maternal behavior, sun bear

2014


Urban noise undermines female sexual preferences for low-frequency songs in domestic canaries

Authors: Guillaume Huet des Aunay, Hans Slabbekoorn, Laurent Nagle, Floriane Passas, Pierre Nicolas, Tudor I. Draganoiu

Publication/Journal: Animal Behaviour

Keywords: anthropogenic noise, birdsong, domestic canary, masking, mate choice, serinus canaria

2014


Noise annoys: effects of noise on breeding great tits depend on personality but not on noise characteristics

Authors: Marc Naguib, Kees van Oers, Annika Braakhuis, Maaike Griffioen, Piet de Goede, Joseph R. Waas

Publication/Journal: Animal Behaviour

Keywords: animal personality, anthropogenic disturbance, begging, great tit, noise, parental care, parus major

2013


Beyond masking: Endangered Stephen’s kangaroo rats respond to traffic noise with footdrumming

Authors: D. M. Shier, A. J. Lea, M. A. Owen

Publication/Journal: Biological Conservation

Keywords: footdrumming, kangaroo rat, masking, road noise, signal detection, traffic noise

2012


The circadian body temperature rhythm of Djungarian Hamsters (Phodopus sungorus) revealing different circadian phenotypes

Authors: Konrad Schöttner, Jim Waterhouse, Dietmar Weinert

Publication/Journal: Physiology & Behavior

Keywords: arrhythmic activity patterns, body temperature, circadian rhythm, djungarian hamster, motor activity, unmasking

2011


Comparative Effects of Urban Development and Anthropogenic Noise on Bird Songs

Authors: J. L. Dowling, D. A. Luther, P. P. Marra

Publication/Journal: Behavioral Ecology

Keywords: *bird song, acoustic adjustment, acoustic interference, anthropogenic noise, signal transmission, urbanization

2011


Dip listening and the cocktail party problem in grey treefrogs: signal recognition in temporally fluctuating noise

Authors: A. Vélez, M. A. Bee

Publication/Journal: Animal Behaviour

Keywords: acoustic communication, cocktail party problem, dip listening, gray treefrog, hyla chrysoscelis, masking release

2011


Noise-dependent vocal plasticity in domestic fowl

Authors: Henrik Brumm, Rouven Schmidt, Lars Schrader

Publication/Journal: Animal Behaviour

Keywords: acoustic communication, chicken, environmental noise, gallus gallus, lombard effect, syllable duration, temporal summation

2009


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