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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.
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  5. Recognize advances in improving captive exotic animal welfare and ethics through awards.
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The effect of different types of environmental enrichment on Humboldt penguin Spheniscus humboldti behaviour

Authors: Catherine Razal, Lance Miller

Publication/Journal: Journal of Zoo and Aquarium Research

Keywords: enrichment, feed, island, minnows, penguins, sticks

2021

Uncertainty in risky environments: a high-risk phenotype interferes with social learning about risk and safety

Authors: Adam L. Crane, Maud C. O. Ferrari

Publication/Journal: Animal Behaviour

Keywords: cultural transmission, decision-making, neophobia, secondary traumatization, stereotypy

2016

Acoustic noise reduces foraging success in two sympatric fish species via different mechanisms

Authors: Irene K. Voellmy, Julia Purser, Douglas Flynn, Philippa Kennedy, Stephen D. Simpson, Andrew N. Radford

Publication/Journal: Animal Behaviour

Keywords: anthropogenic noise, environmental change, fish behaviour, gasterosteus aculeatus, phoxinus phoxinus, pollution, predation risk, species differences, starvation risk

2014

The effect of group size on the behaviour and welfare of four fish species commonly kept in home aquaria

Authors: Amelia Saxby, Leoni Adams, Donna Snellgrove, Rod W. Wilson, Katherine A. Sloman

Publication/Journal: Applied Animal Behaviour Science

Keywords: barbus tetrazona, environmental enrichment, novel object, paracheirodon innesi, pterophyllum scalare, stocking density, tanichthys albonubes

2010

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