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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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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

Endocrinology of sociality: Comparisons between sociable and solitary individuals within the same population of African striped mice

Authors: Ivana Schoepf, Carsten Schradin

Publication/Journal: Hormones and Behavior

Keywords: aggression, alternative reproductive tactics, communal breeding, cooperative breeding, dispersal, helper, philopatry, social flexibility

2013

Seasonality and site fidelity of the zebra shark, Stegostoma fasciatum, in southeast Queensland, Australia

Authors: Christine L. Dudgeon, Janet M. Lanyon, Jayson M. Semmens

Publication/Journal: Animal Behaviour

Keywords: acoustic telemetry, elasmobranch, glmm, leopard shark, migration movement, philopatry, stegostoma fasciatum

2013

Social preference influences female community structure in a population of wild eastern grey kangaroos

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

Publication/Journal: Animal Behaviour

Keywords: community, fission–fusion, kangaroo, macropus-giganteus, network analysis, relatedness, social preference

2013

Effects of predation risk on foraging behaviour and group size: adaptations in a social cooperative species

Authors: Enrico Sorato, Philippa R. Gullett, Simon C. Griffith, Andrew F. Russell

Publication/Journal: Animal Behaviour

Keywords: chestnut-crowned babbler, dilution effect, early detection, foraging, pomatostomus ruficeps, predation, sentinel, sociality

2012

Patterns of injury in zoo-housed spider monkeys: A problem with males?

Authors: N. Davis, C. Schaffner, S. Wehnelt

Publication/Journal: Applied Animal Behaviour Science

Keywords: aggression, ateles, male–male competition, primates, questionnaire, zoo

2009

Proximate factors influencing dispersal decisions in male mountain gorillas, Gorilla beringei beringei

Authors: Tara S. Stoinski, Veronica Vecellio, Theogene Ngaboyamahina, Felix Ndagijimana, Stacy Rosenbaum, Kathryn A. Fawcett

Publication/Journal: Animal Behaviour

Keywords: aggression, concession, dispersal, gorilla beringei beringei), philopatry, relatedness, reproductive opportunity

2009

Social transmission of information about novel food in two populations of the African striped mouse, Rhabdomys pumilio

Authors: Tasmin Rymer, Carsten Schradin, Neville Pillay

Publication/Journal: Animal Behaviour

Keywords: african striped mouse, demonstrator reliability, food novelty, information transfer, paternal care, rhabdomys pumilio, social learning

2008

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 social integration of European badger (Meles meles) cubs into their natal group

Authors: Fell, Rebecca J.; Buesching, Christina D.; Macdonald, David W.

Publication/Journal: Behaviour

Keywords: badger, group living, group-odour, natal philopatry, offspring retention, scent marking, social integration

2006

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