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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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Analytical and biological validation of a noninvasive measurement of glucocorticoid metabolites in feces of Geoffroy’s spider monkeys (Ateles geoffroyi)

Authors: Juliane Damm, Filippo Aureli, Ariadna Rangel-Negrín, Miriam Barradas-Moctezuma, Pedro A. D. Dias

Publication/Journal: American Journal of Primatology

Keywords: capture, circadian rhythm, cortisol, enzyme immunoassay, platyrrhines, reproductive state

2024

Male-male affiliation and cooperation characterize the social behavior of the large-bodied pitheciids, Chiropotes and Cacajao: A review

Authors: Tremaine Gregory, Mark Bowler

Publication/Journal: American Journal of Primatology

Keywords: affiliation, cooperation, dispersal, kinship, large groups

2016

Effect of colour vision status on insect prey capture efficiency of captive and wild tamarins (Saguinus spp.)

Authors: A.C. Smith, A.K. Surridge, M.J. Prescott, D. Osorio, N.I. Mundy, H.M. Buchanan-Smith

Publication/Journal: Animal Behaviour

Keywords: dichromacy, polymorphic colour vision, primate, saguinus spp., sex differences, tamarin, trichromacy

2012

Grooming, kinship, and co-feeding in captive spider monkeys (Ateles geoffroyi)

Authors: Rosalía Pastor-Nieto

Publication/Journal: Zoo Biology

Keywords: affiliative investment, ateles, co-feeding

2001

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