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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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  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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Moult phenology and the influence of breeding activity in adult African penguins Spheniscus demersus at Allwetterzoo Münster, Germany

Authors: Friederike Schmitz, Wagner Philipp

Publication/Journal: Journal of Zoo and Aquarium Research

Keywords: captive management, husbandry practice, jackass penguin

2024

Forest access restores foraging and ranging behavior in captive sifakas

Authors: Lydia K Greene, Jean‐Basile Andriambeloson, Marina B Blanco, Erin E Ehmke

Publication/Journal: Zoo Biology

Keywords: animal welfare, foraging, lemur

2022

Age, fertility and reproductive behavior in Cuban crocodiles, Crocodylus rhombifer, at the Smithsonian’s National Zoological park

Authors: Lauren Augustine, Barbara Watkins

Publication/Journal: Zoo Biology

Keywords: behavior, cuban crocodile

2015

Experimental and observational studies of seasonal interactions between overlapping life history stages in a migratory bird

Authors: Christopher M. Tonra, Peter P. Marra, Rebecca L. Holberton

Publication/Journal: Hormones and Behavior

Keywords: american redstart, carry-over effects, departure timing, migration, setophaga ruticilla, testosterone

2013

Fallback foods, preferred foods, adaptive zones, and primate origins

Authors: Alfred L. Rosenberger

Publication/Journal: American Journal of Primatology

Keywords: adaptive zones, angiosperms, primate origins, seasonal fallback foods, visual predation

2013

Behavioural plasticity may compensate for climate change in a long-lived reptile with temperature-dependent sex determination

Authors: Jeanine M. Refsnider, Fredric J. Janzen

Publication/Journal: Biological Conservation

Keywords: chrysemys picta, common garden, geographic variation, painted turtle, phenology, sex ratio

2012

Nesting Phenology and Clutch Characteristics of Captive Siamese Crocodiles (Crocodylus siamensis) in Cambodia

Authors: Steven G. Platt, Vuthy Monyrath, Heng Sovannara, Long Kheng, Thomas R. Rainwater

Publication/Journal: Zoo Biology

Keywords: conservation, crocodile farms, crocodylus siamensis, double-clutching, endangered species, incubation, twinning

2012

Responses of Javan Gibbon (Hylobates moloch) Groups in Submontane Forest to Monthly Variation in Food Availability: Evidence for Variation on a Fine Spatial Scale

Authors: Sanha Kim, Susan Lappan, Jae C. Choe

Publication/Journal: American Journal of Primatology

Keywords: fbf, feeding strategies, flowers, food abundance, phenology

2012

Phenology of body mass changes during reproduction in a nomadic, tropical waterbird, the Scarlet Ibis (Eudocimus ruber)

Authors: Gregory A. Babbitt, Peter C. Frederick

Publication/Journal: Zoo Biology

Keywords: avian, nomadism, nutrition, reproduction

2008

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