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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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  4. Train professionals on captive exotic animal welfare best practices and policies.
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Analytical and biological validation of a noninvasive measurement of glucocorticoid metabolites in feces of Geoffroy’s spider monkeys (Ateles geoffroyi)

Authors: Juliane Damm, Filippo Aureli, Ariadna Rangel-Negrín, Miriam Barradas-Moctezuma, Pedro A. D. Dias

Publication/Journal: American Journal of Primatology

Keywords: capture, circadian rhythm, cortisol, enzyme immunoassay, platyrrhines, reproductive state

2024


Choice-based severity scale (CSS): assessing the relative severity of procedures from a laboratory animal’s perspective

Authors: Lauren Cassidy, Stefan Treue, Alexander Gail, Dana Pfefferle

Publication/Journal: PeerJ

Keywords: animal behavior, neuroscience, veterinary medicine, zoology

2024


Food preferences and nutrient composition in captive Southern brown howler monkeys, Alouatta guariba clamitans

Authors: P. Silveira, W. Valler Í, Z. M. B. Hirano, A. N. Dada, M. Laska, L. T. H. Salazar

Publication/Journal: Primates

Keywords: alouatta, alouatta guariba clamitans, animals, correlational analysis, female, food preference, haplorhini, humans, male, nutrient composition, nutrients, Southern brown howler monkey

2024


Investigation through Animal–Computer Interaction: A Proof-of-Concept Study for the Behavioural Experimentation of Colour Vision in Zoo-Housed Primates

Authors: Vinícius Donisete Lima Rodrigues Goulart, Robert John Young

Publication/Journal: Animals

Keywords: ACI, animal experimentation, animal welfare, animal-computer-interaction, behavioural research, colour vision, sensory ecology, zoo

2024


Neutrophil to lymphocyte ratio in captive olive baboons (Papio anubis): The effects of age, sex, rearing, stress, and pregnancy

Authors: S. J. Neal, A. M. Achorn, S. J. Schapiro, W. D. Hopkins, J. H. Simmons

Publication/Journal: Am J Primatol

Keywords: *Papio anubis/genetics/physiology, age factors, animals, baboons, early adversity, female, lymphocytes, male, neutrophil‐lymphocyte ratio, neutrophils, physiological, pregnancy, sex factors, stress

2024


Do mixed-species groups of capuchin (Sapajus apella) and squirrel monkeys (Saimiri sciureus) synchronize their behaviour?

Authors: Sophia Daoudi-Simison, Eoin O'Sullivan, Genevieve Moat, Phyllis C. Lee, Hannah M. Buchanan-Smith

Publication/Journal: Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Keywords:

2023


Motor Stereotypic Behaviors in Zoo Rhesus Monkeys: a Case Study of the Central Zoo, Kathmandu, Nepal

Authors: S Sharma, S Shrestha, L Khanal

Publication/Journal: Zoodiversity

Keywords:

2023


Multi-criteria study on a change to a fruit-free diet in Cebidae and Cercopithecidae

Authors: Flore Viallard, Sébastien Lefebvre, Alexandre Petry, Irene Vonfeld, Benoit Quintard

Publication/Journal: Journal of Zoo and Aquarium Research

Keywords: behavior, fecal scoring, food intake, fruit-free diet change

2023


A novel method for automatically analysing the activity of fast-moving animals: a case study of Callimico goeldii monkeys housed in a zoological garden

Authors: Nieckarz Zenon, Nowicki Jacek, Labocha Karolina, Pawlak Krzysztof

Publication/Journal: Scientific Reports

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2023


Do Monkeys Want Audio or Visual Stimuli? Interactive Computers for Choice with White-Faced Sakis in Zoos

Authors: Ilyena Hirskyj-Douglas, Vilma Kankaanpää

Publication/Journal: Designing Interactive Systems Conference

Keywords: animal-computer-interaction, audio analysis, monkey, preference, primate, stimuli, visual

2022


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