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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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Giraffe Giraffa camelopardalis feeding: How stereotypies and other behaviours changed at Kolmårdens djurpark in Sweden

Authors: William Walldén

Publication/Journal: Journal of Zoo and Aquarium Research

Keywords: breed and cull, enrichment, giraffe, reproduction, slow-feeder

2023

The importance of permits for effective population management

Authors: Nilda Ferrer, Lynn McDuffie

Publication/Journal: Zoo Biology

Keywords: permitting, population management, regulatory agencies

2019

How tall should a mink cage be? Using animals’ preferences for different ceiling heights to improve cage design

Authors: María Díez-León, Margaret Quinton, Georgia Mason

Publication/Journal: Applied Animal Behaviour Science

Keywords: animal behaviour, animal welfare, cage size, internal cage height, preference, welfare regulations

2017

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

Taking the aggravation out of data aggregation: A conceptual guide to dealing with statistical issues related to the pooling of individual-level observational data

Authors: Thomas V. Pollet, Gert Stulp, S. Peter Henzi, Louise Barrett

Publication/Journal: American Journal of Primatology

Keywords: aggregation, ecological fallacy, linear mixed modeling, observation methods, pseudoreplication, simpson's paradox

2015

Comparing options for pair housing rhesus macaques using behavioral welfare measures

Authors: Kate C. Baker, Mollie A. Bloomsmith, Brooke Oettinger, Kimberly Neu, Caroline Griffis, Valérie A. M. Schoof

Publication/Journal: American Journal of Primatology

Keywords: behavioral management, cage design, introduction, primate, social

2014

The effect of habitat acoustics on common marmoset vocal signal transmission

Authors: Ryan J. Morrill, A. Wren Thomas, Nicola Schiel, Antonio Souto, Cory T. Miller

Publication/Journal: American Journal of Primatology

Keywords: behavioral ecology, callithrix jacchus, sound broadcasts, sound window, vocal communication

2013

Providing elevated ‘getaway bunks’ to nursing mink dams improves their health and welfare

Authors: Lauren Dawson, Misha Buob, Derek Haley, Steve Miller, Judy Stryker, Margaret Quinton, Georgia Mason

Publication/Journal: Applied Animal Behaviour Science

Keywords: bunks, mastitis, mink, nursing, nursing sickness, welfare

2013

Effect of a cage divider permitting social stimuli on stress and food intake in rats

Authors: M. M. Boggiano, S. A. Cavigelli, J. R. Dorsey, C. E. P. Kelley, C. M. Ragan, P. C. Chandler-Laney

Publication/Journal: Physiology & Behavior

Keywords: adrenal, animal welfare, body weight, catecholamines, corticosterone, enrichment, feces, feeding, glucocorticoids, housing, hpa, hplc, husbandry, ingestive behavior, ria, rodent, stress hormones

2008

Social Learning of Nut-Cracking Behavior in East African Sanctuary-Living Chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes schweinfurthii)

Authors: Sarah Marshall-Pescini, Andrew Whiten

Publication/Journal: Journal of Comparative Psychology

Keywords: *tool use, chimpanzees, nut cracking, social learning

2008

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