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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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Welfare assessment of slow loris (Nycticebus spp.) at an Indonesian primate rehabilitation center: Development and validation of body condition score

Authors: Yumni K. Ghassani, Puji Rianti, Nur P. Priambada, Imam Arifin, Indri Saptorini, Wendi Prameswari, Huda S. Darusman

Publication/Journal: American Journal of Primatology

Keywords: bcs, body circumference, body weight, nocturnal primate

2023

Chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes) show subtle signs of uncertainty when choices are more difficult

Authors: Matthias Allritz, Emma Suvi McEwen, Josep Call

Publication/Journal: Cognition

Keywords: chimpanzee, epistemic emotions, feelings of uncertainty, procedural metacognition, transitive inference

2021

Development of an image-based body condition score for giraffes Giraffa camelopardalis and a comparison of zoo-housed and free-ranging individuals

Authors: Irina Clavadetscher, Monica Bond, Louise Martin, Christian Schiffmann, Jean-Michel Hatt, Marcus Clauss

Publication/Journal: Journal of Zoo and Aquarium Research

Keywords: body condition score, free-ranging giraffe, PMS, zoo

2021

Influence of handler relationships and experience on health parameters, glucocorticoid responses and behaviour of semi-captive Asian elephants

Authors: JAH Crawley, O Lierhmann, DJ Franco dos Santos, J Brown, UK Nyein, HH Aung, W Htut, Z Min Oo, MW Seltmann, JL Webb

Publication/Journal: Conservation Physiology

Keywords: asian elephants, human-animal relationship, welfare

2021

Effects of Transport Conditions on Behavioural and Physiological Responses of Horses

Authors: Barbara Padalino, Sharanne L Raidal

Publication/Journal: Animals

Keywords: behaviour, equine, position, space, stomach ulcers, travelling, welfare

2020

Effects of different levels of environmental enrichment on the sheltering behaviors, brain development and cortisol levels of black rockfish Sebastes schlegelii

Authors: Zonghang Zhang, Xuemei Zhang, Zhenlin Li, Xiumei Zhang

Publication/Journal: Applied Animal Behaviour Science

Keywords: behavior, brain size, cortisol, environmental enrichment, fish, level

2019

Acupuncture Needle Stimulation on Some Physiological Parameters After Road Transport and Physical Exercise in Horse

Authors: M. Rizzo, F. Arfuso, C. Giannetto, E. Giudice, F. Longo, D. Bruschetta, G. Piccione

Publication/Journal: Journal of Equine Veterinary Science

Keywords: acupuncture, cortisol, erythrocytes, exercise, goats, hematochemical parameter, horse, muscle, oxidative stress, responses, road transport, veterinary sciences

2017

Assessment of the differences in masticatory behavior between male and female adolescents

Authors: Kelly Guedes de Oliveira Scudine, Aline Pedroni-Pereira, Darlle Santos Araujo, Daniela Galvão de Almeida Prado, Ana Claudia Rossi, Paula Midori Castelo

Publication/Journal: Physiology & Behavior

Keywords: adolescent, mastication, sex differences

2016

Automated detection and characterisation of rumination in sheep using in vivo electrophysiology

Authors: Alister U. Nicol, Nicholas Perentos, Amadeu Q. Martins, A. Jennifer Morton

Publication/Journal: Physiology & Behavior

Keywords: dysphagia, electroencephalogram, electromyogram, electrooculogram, mastication

2016

Dietary management, husbandry, and body weights of African elephants (Loxodonta africana) during successful pregnancies at Disney’s Animal Kingdom

Authors: Kathleen Sullivan, Katherine Kerr, Rachel Wanty, Bryan Amaral, Francisco Olea-Popelka, Eduardo Valdes

Publication/Journal: Zoo Biology

Keywords: calving, exercise, fertility, gestation, nutrition, obesity

2016

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