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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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Reliability of caretakers’ ratings of captive bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops truncatus) and finless porpoises’(Neophocaena asiaeorientalis sp.) behavioral style for welfare monitoring

Authors: Agathe Serres, Chaoqun Wang, Yujiang Hao, Jie Lin, Ding Wang

Publication/Journal: Journal of Applied Animal Welfare Science

Keywords: human-animal relationship, odontocetes, playfulness, qualitative assessment, training session

2022

Young Belugas Diversify Adult Beluga (Delphinapterus leucas) Behavior

Authors: H. Hill, S. Guarino, S. Crandall, E. Lenhart, S. Dietrich

Publication/Journal: Animal Behavior and Cognition

Keywords: beluga, delphinapterus leucas, enrichment, play, social composition, social interactions, white whale

2015

Play, Playfulness, Creativity and Innovation

Authors: P. Bateson

Publication/Journal: Animal Behavior and Cognition

Keywords: animal play, applying ideas, human playfulness, novel solutions

2014

Attention to emotional scenes including whole-body expressions in chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes)

Authors: Fumihiro Kano, Masaki Tomonaga

Publication/Journal: Journal of Comparative Psychology

Keywords: attention, chimpanzees, emotional expressions, looking time, negative emotion

2010

Abstraction, cruelty and other aspects of animal play (exemplified by the playfulness of Muki and Maluca)

Authors: Morten Tønnessen

Publication/Journal: Sign Systems Studies

Keywords: cat play, cruelty play, human play, play behaviour, play-behavior, social morality, umwelt

2009

Adult play fighting and potential role of tail signals in ringtailed lemurs (Lemur catta)

Authors: Elisabetta Palagi

Publication/Journal: Journal of Comparative Psychology

Keywords: adult play fighting, lemur catta, strepsirrhines, tail play, visual signals

2009

Effects of neonatal handling on playfulness by means of reversal of the desire to play in rats (Rattus norvegicus)

Authors: Raúl Aguilar, José M. Caramés, Alfredo Espinet

Publication/Journal: Journal of Comparative Psychology

Keywords: early handling, play, rats

2009

Manual of Parrot Behavior

Authors: A. U. Luescher

Publication/Journal:

Keywords: companion animals, parrot, parrot behavior, parrot behaviour, psiattacines

2006

Consistency of personality traits in dogs

Authors: Kenth Svartberg, Ingrid Tapper, Hans Temrin, Tommy Radesäter, Staffan Thorman

Publication/Journal: Animal Behaviour

Keywords: animal personality, canis, dogs

2005

Personality traits in the domestic dog

Authors: Kenth Svartberg, Björn Forkman

Publication/Journal: Applied Animal Behaviour Science

Keywords: aggression, dogs, individual differences, personality, shyness-boldness, temperament

2002

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