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Our Goals

  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.
URL: https://detroitzoo.org/resources/?fwp_search=morality

Allostatic Load Index Effectively Measures Chronic Stress Status in Zoo-Housed Giraffes

Authors: Haley N. Beer, Lisa K. Karr, Trenton C. Shrader, Dustin T. Yates

Publication/Journal: Journal of Zoological and Botanical Gardens

Keywords: conservation, morality, morbidity, stressors, zoo welfare

2023

Philosophy of a “Good Death” in Small Animals and Consequences for Euthanasia in Animal Law and Veterinary Practice

Authors: Kirsten Persson, Felicitas Selter, Gerald Neitzke, Peter Kunzmann

Publication/Journal: Animals

Keywords: animal death, euthanasia guidelines, moral stress, veterinary ethics

2020

Animal welfare complementing or conflicting with other sustainability issues

Authors: D. M. Broom

Publication/Journal: Applied Animal Behaviour Science

Keywords: cows, domestic cats, emissions, greenhouse gases, placebo, road traffic accidents

2019

International Animal Welfare Perspectives, Including Whaling and Inhumane Seal Killing as a WTO Public Morality Issue

Authors: D. M. Broom

Publication/Journal: Animal Law and Welfare - International Perspectives

Keywords: evolution, law, science

2016

Science, Animal Ethics and the Law

Authors: J. M. Verrinder, N. McGrath, C. J. C. Phillips

Publication/Journal: Animal Law and Welfare - International Perspectives

Keywords: asia, behavior, bias, defining issues test, dogs, europe, law, moral judgment development, students attitudes, veterinary education, welfare

2016

Meat morals: relationship between meat consumption consumer attitudes towards human and animal welfare and moral behavior

Authors: Charlotte J. S. De Backer, Liselot Hudders

Publication/Journal: Meat Science

Keywords: animal concern, human welfare, meat consumption, morality, vegetarianism

2015

Abstraction, cruelty and other aspects of animal play (exemplified by the playfulness of Muki and Maluca)

Authors: Morten Tønnessen

Publication/Journal: Sign Systems Studies

Keywords: cat play, cruelty play, human play, play behaviour, play-behavior, social morality, umwelt

2009

Elephants and ethics: toward a morality of coexistence

Authors: Christen M. Wemmer, Catherine A. Christen

Publication/Journal:

Keywords: animal welfare moral and ethical aspects, elephants effect of human beings on moral and ethical aspects

2008

The evolution of morality

Authors: Donald Maurice Broom

Publication/Journal: Applied Animal Behaviour Science

Keywords: altruism, ethics, evolution, morality, religion, sentience, welfare

2006

Animal Suffering: An Invertebrate Perspective

Authors: Jennifer A. Mather

Publication/Journal: JOURNAL OF APPLIED ANIMAL WELFARE SCIENCE,

Keywords: behavioral enrichment, cephalopods, environmental enrichment, invertebrate, welfare

2001

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