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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.
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Behavioral interactions and glucocorticoid production of Somali wild ass (Equus africanus somaliensis) mothers and foals

Authors: Corinne P Kozlowski, Eli Baskir, Helen L Clawitter, Ashley D Franklin, Tim Thier, Martha Fischer, David M Powell, Cheryl S Asa

Publication/Journal: Applied Animal Behaviour Science

Keywords: affiliative behavior, agonistic behavior, equid, fecal hormone, mother-offspring, nursing

2021

Characterization of estrous cycles and pregnancy in Somali wild asses (Equus africanus somaliensis) through fecal hormone analyses

Authors: Corinne P. Kozlowski, Helen L. Clawitter, Tim Thier, Martha T. Fischer, Cheryl S. Asa

Publication/Journal: Zoo Biology

Keywords: equid, estrogens, gestation, progestagens

2018

Affiliative and aggressive behavior in a group of female somali wild ass (Equus africanus somalicus)

Authors: C. S. Asa, F. Marshall, M. Fischer

Publication/Journal: Zoo Biology

Keywords: agonistic behavior, dominance, equids, social behavior

2012

Fitness Consequences of Maternal Rearing Strategies in Warthogs: Influence of Group Size and Composition

Authors: A.M. White, E.Z. Cameron

Publication/Journal: Journal of Zoology

Keywords: alloparenting, common warthog, cooperative breeding, group augmentation, helper effect, offspring survival, phacochoerus africanus, reproductive strategies, sociality

2011

A pigheaded compromise: do competition and predation explain variation in warthog group size?

Authors: A. M. White

Publication/Journal: Behavioral Ecology

Keywords: common warthog, competition, group living, group-size, phacochoerus africanus, predation pressure, sociality

2010

Communal nesting is unrelated to burrow availability in the common warthog

Authors: A. White, E. Cameron

Publication/Journal: Animal Behaviour

Keywords: common warthog, communal nesting, cooperative breeding, ecological constraints, habitat choice, phacochoerus africanus, reproductive strategies, site selection, sociality

2009

Comparative digestion studies in wild suids at Rotterdam Zoo

Authors: Marcus Clauss, Joeke Nijboer, Jochem H. M. Loermans, Thomas Roth, Jan Van der Kuilen, Anton C. Beynen

Publication/Journal: Zoo Biology

Keywords: babirusa, digestion, feeding, nutrition, peccary, red river hog, warthog, warty pig, wild boar

2008

Diet of the common warthog (Phacochoerus africanus) on former cattle grounds in a Tanzanian savanna

Authors: Anna C. Treydte, Stefano M. Bernasconi, Michael Kreuzer, Peter J. Edwards

Publication/Journal: Journal of Mammalogy

Keywords: african savanna, isotopic analyses, livestock, medium-sized grazer, nitrogen, phosphorus

2006

Population genetic structure of the common warthog (Phacochoerus africanus) in Uganda: evidence for a strong philopatry among warthogs and social structure breakdown in a disturbed population

Authors: Vincent B. Muwanika, Silvester Nyakaana, Hans R. Siegismund, Peter Arctander

Publication/Journal: African Journal of Ecology

Keywords: common warthog, philopatry, social-structure

2006

The african wild ass conseration status in the horn of Africa

Authors: Patricia D Moehlmana, Fanuel Kebedeb, Hagos Yohannesc

Publication/Journal: Applied Animal Behaviour Science

Keywords: critically endangered, equus africanus, extinction

1998

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