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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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Improving animal welfare standards while reducing disease exposure risk during euthanasia of trapped brushtail possums (Trichosurus vulpecula)

Authors: C. Rouco, K. S. Richardson, D. M. Tompkins

Publication/Journal: Animal Welfare

Keywords: air rifle, animal welfare, blunt-force trauma, shooting, tuberculosis, wildlife capture

2015

Short-term welfare implications of capture-mark-recapture trapping of medium-sized mammals: the brushtail possum (Trichosurus vulpecula) as a case study

Authors: P. Cowan, G. Forrester, B. Warburton

Publication/Journal: Animal Welfare

Keywords: activity patterns, animal welfare, mark-recapture, possum, trichosurus vulpecula, weight loss

2013

Assessing Acute Effects of Trapping, Handling, and Tagging on the Behavior of Wildlife Using GPS Telemetry: A Case Study of the Common Brushtail Possum

Authors: Todd E. Dennis, Shabana F. Shah

Publication/Journal: Journal of Applied Animal Welfare Science

Keywords: animal behavior, common brushtail possum, gps telemetry, handling, stress, tagging, trapping, wildlife

2012

Minimising number killed in long-term vertebrate pest management programmes, and associated economic incentives

Authors: B. Warburton, D. M. Tompkins, D. Choquenot, P. Cowan

Publication/Journal: Animal Welfare

Keywords: animal welfare, bennett's wallaby, brushtail possum, control strategies, economic incentives, ship rat

2012

Behavioural Adaptation of Brushtail Possums (Trichosurus Vulpecula) to Captivity

Authors: T.D. Day, C.E. O'Connor

Publication/Journal: Animal Welfare

Keywords: animal welfare, behavior, behaviour, brushtail possum, captivity, trichosurus vulpecula

2000

Successful Group Housing of Wild-Caught Brushtail Possums (Trichosurus Vulpecula)

Authors: B.J. McLeod, E.G. Thompson, J.L. Crawford, G.H. Shackell

Publication/Journal: Animal Welfare

Keywords: animal welfare, brushtail possum, group housing, social well-being, stress

1997

Common ringtail possum (Pseudocheirus peregrinus) as a management model for the Pseudocheiridae: Reproductive scope, behavior, and biomedical values on a browse-free diet

Authors: Miles Roberts, Lyndsay Phillips, Frank Kohn

Publication/Journal: Zoo Biology

Keywords: captive biology, husbandry, life history, reproduction

1990

Didelphis virginiana

Authors: John J. McManus

Publication/Journal: Mammalian Species

Keywords: opossum, possum, virginia opossum

1974

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