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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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Misadventures of Sentience: Animals and the Basis of Equality

Authors: Federico Zuolo

Publication/Journal: Animals

Keywords: Alasadir Cochrane, basis of equality, equal consideration of interests, equality in animal ethics, Peter Singer, proportionality, sentience

2019


Skin temperature reveals the intensity of acute stress

Authors: Katherine A. Herborn, James L. Graves, Paul Jerem, Neil P. Evans, Ruedi Nager, Dominic J. McCafferty, Dorothy E. F. McKeegan

Publication/Journal: Physiology & Behavior

Keywords: animal welfare, corticosterone, stress-induced hyperthermia, thermal imaging

2015


Interspecific Interactions between Primates, Birds, Bats, and Squirrels May Affect Community Composition on Borneo

Authors: Lydia Beaudrot, Matthew J. Struebig, Erik Meijaard, Sebastianus Van Balen, Simon Husson, Carson F. Young, Andrew J. Marshall

Publication/Journal: American Journal of Primatology

Keywords: chiroptera, community assembly, niche differentiation, sciuridae, southeast asia

2013


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