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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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Home is where the home range is: Identifying territoriality and exhibit preferences in an ex-situ group of all-male Nile crocodiles (Crocodylus niloticus)

Authors: Laura Stalter, Megan Terry, Alex Riley, Austin Leeds

Publication/Journal: PLOS ONE

Keywords: animal behavior, animal welfare, collective animal behavior, crocodiles, geographic information systems, habitat, islands, network analysis

2024

The Zone Overlap Index: A new measure of shared resource use in the zoo

Authors: J. E. Brereton, P. E. Rose

Publication/Journal: Zoo Biol

Keywords: animal, animals, compatibility, enclosure design, housing, humans, mixed-species enclosure, Pianka Niche Overlap Index, proximity, zoo

2023

Investigating the effect of social grouping on the behaviour of captive leopards

Authors: Giovanni Quintavalle Pastorino, James Edward Brereton, Francesca Drago, Eleonora Confalonieri, Richard Preziosi

Publication/Journal: Journal of Zoo and Aquarium Research

Keywords: activity budget, Electivity Index, felid, panthera pardus, sociality

2021

Effects of temporary captivity on ranging behaviour in urban red foxes (Vulpes vulpes)

Authors: Bryony Tolhurst, Adam Grogan, Heather Hughes, Dawn Scott

Publication/Journal: Applied Animal Behaviour Science

Keywords: captivity, ex situ, home range, ranging behaviour, red fox, rehabilitation

2016

The psychobiology of social pain: Evidence for a neurocognitive overlap with physical pain and welfare implications for social animals with special attention to the domestic dog (Canis familiaris)

Authors: Franklin D. McMillan

Publication/Journal: Physiology & Behavior

Keywords: dogs, pain, social animals, welfare

2016

Assessment of the reproductive status of female veiled chameleons (Chamaeleo calyptratus) using hormonal, behavioural and physical traits

Authors: Robyn H. Pimm, Christopher Dutton, Stacey O'Handley, Gabriela F. Mastromonaco

Publication/Journal: Zoo Biology

Keywords: chamaeleo calyptratus, fecal hormones, follicular stasis, reproductive cycle, ultrasonography, veiled chameleon

2015

Lack of seasonal and moult-related stress modulation in an opportunistically breeding bird: The white-plumed honeyeater (Lichenostomus penicillatus)

Authors: William A. Buttemer, BriAnne A. Addison, Lee B. Astheimer

Publication/Journal: Hormones and Behavior

Keywords: corticosterone, corticosterone suppression, moult, moult/breeding overlap, opportunistic breeding, stress modulation, white-plumed honeyeater

2015

Social bonds in the dispersing sex: partner preferences among adult female chimpanzees

Authors: Steffen Foerster, Karen McLellan, Kara Schroepfer-Walker, Carson M. Murray, Christopher Krupenye, Ian C. Gilby, Anne E. Pusey

Publication/Journal: Animal Behaviour

Keywords: chimpanzee social structure, core area, dyadic association, kin bias, range estimation, social bonding, social preference

2015

Associations are more strongly correlated with space use than kinship in female eastern grey kangaroos

Authors: Emily C. Best, Ross G. Dwyer, Jennifer M. Seddon, Anne W. Goldizen

Publication/Journal: Animal Behaviour

Keywords: digiroo2, home range, kangaroo, macropus-giganteus, network analysis, social preference

2014

Barn owls do not interrupt their siblings

Authors: Amélie N. Dreiss, Charlène A. Ruppli, Fréderic Oberli, Sylvain Antoniazza, Isabelle Henry, Alexandre Roulin

Publication/Journal: Animal Behaviour

Keywords: animal communication, barn owl, overlap, sibling negotiation, signal interference, tyto alba

2013

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