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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.
  3. Convene important discussions and presentations on captive exotic animal welfare and ethics.
  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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Bold Frogs or Shy Toads? How Did the COVID-19 Closure of Zoological Organisations Affect Amphibian Activity?

Authors: Jack Boultwood, Michelle O’Brien, Paul Rose

Publication/Journal: Animals

Keywords: amphibian behaviour, amphibian welfare, COVID-19, enclosure usage, evidence-based husbandry, visitor effect

2021

Baseline Knowledge of Potential Pet Toxins among the US General Public

Authors: Natalie Young, Kenneth Royal, Bryan Lovee, Gigi Davidson

Publication/Journal: Journal of Applied Animal Welfare Science

Keywords: animal toxins, animals, knowledge survey, pet toxins, veterinary medicine

2019

Carotenoid supplementation enhances reproductive success in captive strawberry poison frogs (Oophaga pumilio)

Authors: Matthew B. Dugas, Justin Yeager, Corinne L. Richards-Zawacki

Publication/Journal: Zoo Biology

Keywords: amphibian reproduction, captive breeding, carotenoids, dendrobates pumilio, dendrobatidae

2013

Predation Determines the Outcome of 10 Reintroduction Attempts in Arid South Australia

Authors: K.E. Moseby, J.L. Read, D.C. Paton, P. Copley, B.M. Hill, H.A. Crisp

Publication/Journal: Biological Conservation

Keywords: arid zone, reintroduction, success criteria, threatened species, translocation

2011

Is sodium fluoroacetate (1080) a humane poison? The influence of mode of action, physiological effects, and target specificity

Authors: L.E. Twigg, R.W. Parker

Publication/Journal: Animal Welfare

Keywords: 1080, animal welfare, ethical pest control, fluoroacetate, humaneness, vertebrate pest

2010

Is sodium fluoroacetate (1080) a humane poison?

Authors: M. Sherley

Publication/Journal: Animal Welfare

Keywords: 1080, animal welfare, bait, poison, sodium fluoroacetate, vertebrate pest

2007

Interspecific and intraspecific views of color signals in the strawberry poison frog Dendrobates pumilio

Authors: A. Siddiqi

Publication/Journal: Journal of Experimental Biology

Keywords: aposematism, color signal., color vision, dendrobates pumilio, poison frog, visual ecology

2004

Environmental Enrichment for Dendrobatid Frogs

Authors: Kristiina Hurme, Kittzie Gonzalez, Mark Halvorsen, Bruce Foster, Don Moore, B. Diane Chepko-Sade

Publication/Journal: Journal of Applied Animal Welfare Science

Keywords: dart-poison frog, dendrobatid, enrichment, feeder, husbandry

2003

Methodologies for the Care, Maintenance, and Breeding of Tropical Poison Frogs

Authors: Scott P. McRobert

Publication/Journal: Journal of Applied Animal Welfare Science

Keywords: animal behavior, animal behaviour, ecology, genetics, laboratory animal care, tropical poison frogs

2003

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