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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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Towards more compassionate wildlife research through the 3Rs principles: moving from invasive to non-invasive methods

Authors: Miriam A Zemanova

Publication/Journal: Wildlife Biology

Keywords: 3Rs principles, animal welfare, ecology, reduction, refinement, replacement

2020


Wild boar behaviour during live-trap capture in a corral-style trap: implications for animal welfare

Authors: Åsa Fahlman, Johan Lindsjö, Therese Arvén Norling, Petter Kjellander, Erik Olof Ågren, Ulrika Alm Bergvall

Publication/Journal: Acta Veterinaria Scandinavica

Keywords: 3R, ethogram, health, hunting, management, refinement, stress, sus scrofa, trapping, wildlife

2020


Corticosterone Assimilation by a Voluntary Oral Administration in Palatable Food to Rats

Authors: Juliana Raya, Carlos Eduardo Neves Girardi, Débora Cristina Hipólide

Publication/Journal: Journal of Applied Animal Welfare Science

Keywords: administration, bread, drug, noninvasive, refinement

2019


Efficacy and Animal Welfare Impacts of Novel Capture Methods for Two Species of Invasive Wild Mammals in New Zealand

Authors: A. David M. Latham, Ben Davidson, Bruce Warburton, Ivor Yockney, Jordan O. Hampton

Publication/Journal: Animals

Keywords: bennett's wallaby, cervus-elaphus, darting, ground-based netting, net-gunning, Notamacropus rufogriseus, red deer, thiafentanil, tiletamine-zolazepam

2019


How our approaches to assessing benefits and harms can be improved

Authors: E. S. Sena, G. L. Currie

Publication/Journal: Animal Welfare

Keywords: animal welfare, benefit, experimental validity, harm, laboratory research, meta-research

2019


In-Tank Underwater Cameras can Refine Monitoring of Laboratory Fish

Authors: T. Ellis, G. S. E. Rimmer, S. J. Parker, C. Joiner, M. Sebire, D. W. Verner-Jeffreys, J. Lines

Publication/Journal: Animal Welfare

Keywords: animal welfare, end-point, fish welfare, laboratory fish, refinement, remote monitoring

2019


It’s in the bag: Corticosterone levels and behavioral responses of Eastern Bluebirds (Sialia sialis) vary with type of holding bag

Authors: Renee E. Carleton, Rachel M. Caldwell

Publication/Journal: Wilson Journal of Ornithology

Keywords: behavior, capture, corticosterone, eastern bluebird, holding bag, restraint, stress

2019


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


The impact of bedding volumes on laboratory mice

Authors: Jennifer Freymann, Ping-Ping Tsai, Helge Stelzer, Hansjoachim Hackbarth

Publication/Journal: Applied Animal Behaviour Science

Keywords: bedding volume, body temperature, corticosterone, food intake, mice, preference test

2017


The impact of social context on behaviour and the recovery from welfare challenges in zebrafish, Danio rerio

Authors: Lewis J. White, Jack S. Thomson, Kieran C. Pounder, Robert C. Coleman, Lynne U. Sneddon

Publication/Journal: Animal Behaviour

Keywords: fish welfare, recovery, social enrichment, stress

2017


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