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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.
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Individual recognition in a wild cooperative mammal using contact calls

Authors: Lynda L. Sharpe, Amy Hill, Michael I. Cherry

Publication/Journal: Animal Behaviour

Keywords: contact call, cooperation, dominance hierarchy, dwarf mongoose, helogale parvula, individual recognition, relative rank, vocalization

2013

Mongoose, Meerkat, & Fossa (Herpestidae/Eupleridae) Care Manual

Authors: AZA Small Carnivore TAG

Publication/Journal:

Keywords: aza, care manual, fossa, meerkat, mongoose

2011

Scent marking in wild banded mongooses: 1. Sex-specific scents and overmarking

Authors: Neil R. Jordan, Marta B. Manser, Francis Mwanguhya, Solomon Kyabulima, Peter Rüedi, Michael A. Cant

Publication/Journal: Animal Behaviour

Keywords: banded mongoose, communication, competition, mungos mungo, olfaction, overmark, scent mark, sex difference, sexual selection

2011

Scent marking in wild banded mongooses: 2. Intrasexual overmarking and competition between males

Authors: Neil R. Jordan, Francis Mwanguhya, Roman D. Furrer, Solomon Kyabulima, Peter Rüedi, Michael A. Cant

Publication/Journal: Animal Behaviour

Keywords: banded mongoose, communication, competition, mating success, mungos mungo, olfaction, overmark, scent mark, sexual selection

2011

Scent marking in wild banded mongooses: 3. Intrasexual overmarking in females

Authors: Neil R. Jordan, Francis Mwanguhya, Solomon Kyabulima, Peter Rüedi, Sarah J. Hodge, Michael A. Cant

Publication/Journal: Animal Behaviour

Keywords: banded mongoose, communication, competition, female, intrasexual, mating success, mungos mungo, olfactory, overmark, scent mark

2011

Dominance, aggression, and glucocorticoid levels in social carnivores

Authors: Scott Creel

Publication/Journal: Journal of Mammalogy

Keywords: aggression, canis lupus, carnivores, cooperative breeding, dominance, glucocorticoids, helogale parvula, lycaon pictus, stress

2005

Evidence for social enhancement of reproduction in two Eulemur species

Authors: Gail W. Hearn, Robert W. Berghaier, Diane D. George

Publication/Journal: Zoo Biology

Keywords: allee effect, black lemur, brown lemur, husbandry, mongoose lemur, social facilitation

1996

Observations on reproduction, hormones, copulatory behavior, and neonatal mortality in captive Lemur mongoz (Mongoose lemur)

Authors: Jean M. Perry, M. Kay Izard, Patricia A. Fail

Publication/Journal: Zoo Biology

Keywords: behavior, estrous cycle, mortality, prosimian, testicular index

1992

Ontogeny of playful contact in a social mongoose, the Meerkat, Suricata suricatta

Authors: C. Wemmer, M.J. Fleming

Publication/Journal: American Zoologist

Keywords: family, meerkat, ontogeny, play, social, suricata suricatta

1974

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