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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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The stress of being alone: Removal from the colony, but not social subordination, increases fecal cortisol metabolite levels in eusocial naked mole-rats

Authors: Phoebe D Edwards, Skyler J Mooney, Curtis O Bosson, Ilapreet Toor, Rupert Palme, Melissa M Holmes, Rudy Boonstra

Publication/Journal: Hormones and Behavior

Keywords: enzyme immunoassay, eusocial, fecal cortisol metabolites, isolation stress, naked mole-rat, social rank, social status, social stress

2020

Behavioral responses to emotional challenges in female rats living in a seminatural environment: The role of estrogen receptors

Authors: Olivia Le Moëne, Anders Ågmo

Publication/Journal: Hormones and Behavior

Keywords: co-occurrence analysis, diarylpropionitrile, fear, positive emotion, propylpyrazoletriol, seminatural environment, sexual behavior, social behavior

2018

Investigation of social, affective, and locomotor behavior of adolescent Brattleboro rats reveals a link between vasopressin’s actions on arousal and social behavior

Authors: Kelcie C. Schatz, Robert F. Kyne, Stephanie L. Parmeter, Matthew J. Paul

Publication/Journal: Hormones and Behavior

Keywords: adolescence, Anxiety-like behavior, arousal, Brattleboro rat, social development, vasopressin

2018

Behaviour, stress and welfare of Sprague Dawley rats (Rattus norvegicus) on diet board feeding for 24 months

Authors: Sakari Laaksonen, Timo Nevalainen, Jukka Ketola, Jann Hau, Pentti Nieminen, Kristiina Haasio, Iiris Kasanen, Hanna-Marja Voipio

Publication/Journal: Applied Animal Behaviour Science

Keywords: behaviour, diet board, rat, refinement, welfare

2017

CATOS (Computer Aided Training/Observing System): Automating animal observation and training

Authors: J. Oh, W. T. Fitch

Publication/Journal: Behavior Research Methods

Keywords: animal welfare, apparatus, automated animal training, automatic, cognitive performance, experimental, gamification, mathematical, open-source system, psychology, screen, system

2017

Environmental enrichment of young adult rats (Rattus norvegicus) in different sensory modalities has long-lasting effects on their ability to learn via specific sensory channels

Authors: Vassilissa Dolivo, Michael Taborsky

Publication/Journal: Journal of Comparative Psychology

Keywords: *animal learning, *environmental effects, auditory perception, cues, environmental enrichment, genetics, norway rats, olfactory perception, phenotypes, visual perception

2017

Improving quality of science through better animal welfare: the NC3Rs strategy

Authors: M. J. Prescott, K. Lidster

Publication/Journal: Lab Animal

Keywords: *cognitive bias, emotion, facial expressions, impact, models, mouse, rat grimace scale, refinement, responses, system, veterinary sciences

2017

Prosocial effects of prolactin in male rats: Social recognition, social approach and social learning

Authors: Mary E. Donhoffner, Samar Al Saleh, Olivia Schink, Ruth I. Wood

Publication/Journal: Hormones and Behavior

Keywords: bromocriptine, oxytocin, prolactin, rats, social behavior

2017

Stress coping style does not determine social status, but influences the consequences of social subordination stress

Authors: Gretha J. Boersma, Michael D. Smeltzer, Karen A. Scott, Anton J. Scheurink, Kellie L. Tamashiro, Randall R. Sakai

Publication/Journal: Physiology & Behavior

Keywords: social stress, stress coping style, visual burrow system

2017

Associations among within-litter differences in early mothering received and later emotional behaviors, mothering, and cortical tryptophan hydroxylase-2 expression in female laboratory rats

Authors: Christina M. Ragan, Kaitlyn M. Harding, Joseph S. Lonstein

Publication/Journal: Hormones and Behavior

Keywords: anxiety, maternal behavior, neophobia, tryptophan hydroxylase-2, within-litter

2016

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