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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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In search of the optimal enrichment program for zoo‐housed animals

Authors: Aleksei A Podturkin

Publication/Journal: Zoo Biology

Keywords: activity budget, environmental enrichment, European badger, golden jackal, novelty, zoo-housed

2021

Cumulative experience, age-class, sex and season affect the behavioural responses of European badgers (Meles meles) to handling and sedation

Authors: Q. Sun, C. Stevens, C. Newman, C. D. Buesching, D. W. Macdonald

Publication/Journal: Animal Welfare

Keywords: animal welfare, badger, behavioural response, injection, restraint, sedation

2015

Foraging Eurasian badgers Meles meles and the presence of cattle in pastures. Do badgers avoid cattle?

Authors: Enda M. Mullen, Teresa MacWhite, Peter K. Maher, David J. Kelly, Nicola M. Marples, Margaret Good

Publication/Journal: Applied Animal Behaviour Science

Keywords: avoidance, cattle, free-ranging badgers, gps collars, irish, mycobacterium bovis, paddock

2013

Demographic correlates of bite wounding in Eurasian badgers, Meles meles L., in stable and perturbed populations

Authors: R. J. Delahay, N. J. Walker, G. J. Forrester, B. Harmsen, P. Riordan, D. W. Macdonald, C. Newman, C. L. Cheeseman

Publication/Journal: Animal Behaviour

Keywords: aggression, badgers, bite wounds, territory

2006

The social integration of European badger (Meles meles) cubs into their natal group

Authors: Fell, Rebecca J.; Buesching, Christina D.; Macdonald, David W.

Publication/Journal: Behaviour

Keywords: badger, group living, group-odour, natal philopatry, offspring retention, scent marking, social integration

2006

The effect of transport stress on neutrophil activation in wild badgers (Meles meles)

Authors: I. Montes, G.W. McLaren, D.W. Macdonald, R. Mian

Publication/Journal: Animal Welfare

Keywords: animal welfare, badgers, measuring stress, meles meles, neutrophil activation, transport

2004

The effect of translocation on a social group of badgers (Meles meles)

Authors: J.A. Brown, C. L. Cheeseman

Publication/Journal: Animal Welfare

Keywords: animal welfare, badger, diet, home-range size, release site, translocation

1996

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