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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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A retrospective study on the prevalence of main clinical findings in brown bears (Ursus arctos) rescued from substandard husbandry conditions

Authors: Stagni,Elena, Sequeira,Sara, Brscic,Marta, Redtenbacher,Irene, Hartmann,Sabine

Publication/Journal: Frontiers in Veterinary Science

Keywords: animal welfare, brown bear, Clinical finding, health, keeping condition, pre-rescue bear origin

2023


Does the social network structure of wild animal populations differ from that of animals in captivity?

Authors: Xareni P Pacheco, Joah R Madden

Publication/Journal: Behavioural Processes

Keywords: captivity, dominance, grooming, network position, social network analysis

2021


15 – Quality-of-Life Assessment and End-of-Life Planning for Geriatric Zoo Animals

Authors: Larry Vogelnest, Jessica J. Talbot

Publication/Journal: Fowler's Zoo and Wild Animal Medicine Current Therapy, Volume 9

Keywords:

2019


The effects of mining machinery noise of different frequencies on the behaviour, faecal corticosterone and tissue morphology of wild mice (Mus musculus)

Authors: Karen F. Mancera, Allan Lisle, Rachel Allavena, Clive J. C. Phillips

Publication/Journal: Applied Animal Behaviour Science

Keywords: anthropogenic noise, circling, high frequency, low frequency, mining, stress

2017


The effects of enrichment novelty versus complexity in cages of group-housed rats (Rattus norvegicus)

Authors: Usama A. Abou-Ismail, Michael T. Mendl

Publication/Journal: Applied Animal Behaviour Science

Keywords: complexity, enrichment, laboratory rats, novelty, welfare

2016


Environmentally enriching American mink (Neovison vison) increases lymphoid organ weight and skeletal symmetry, and reveals differences between two sub-types of stereotypic behaviour

Authors: María Díez-León, Steve Bursian, David Galicia, Angelo Napolitano, Rupert Palme, Georgia Mason

Publication/Journal: Applied Animal Behaviour Science

Keywords: american mink, animal welfare, carnivores, corticosteroids, enrichment, fluctuating asymmetry, immune system, stereotypic behaviour

2016


Long-term alterations in neural and endocrine processes induced by motherhood in mammals

Authors: Robert S. Bridges

Publication/Journal: Hormones and Behavior

Keywords: behavior, endocrine, neuroendocrine, parity, prolactin, reproductive experience

2016


Pain and Laboratory Animals: Publication Practices for Better Data Reproducibility and Better Animal Welfare

Authors: L. Carbone, J. Austin

Publication/Journal: Plos One

Keywords: activity, critical-care, experimental surgical-procedures, killer-cell, liver-transplantation, metastatic colonization, multidisciplinary sciences, neuropathic pain, posterior parietal, reporting guidelines, spinal-cord-injury, systematic reviews

2016


Grooming increases self-directed behaviour in wild Barbary macaques, Macaca sylvanus

Authors: Sandra Molesti, Bonaventura Majolo

Publication/Journal: Animal Behaviour

Keywords: aggression, anxiety, barbary macaque, emotion, grooming, macaca sylvanus, self-directed behaviour, self-grooming, self-scratching

2013


Male quality and conspecific scent preferences in the house finch, Carpodacus mexicanus

Authors: Luisa Amo, Isabel López-Rull, Iluminada Pagán, Constantino Macías Garcia

Publication/Journal: Animal Behaviour

Keywords: avian olfaction, carpodacus mexicanus, chemical ecology, intrasexual interaction, male quality, mate choice, sex recognition

2012


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