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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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A 30 Year (1991–2020) Retrospective mortality review of Giraffids spp. and Okapia johnstoni in managed care

Authors: Rachael Figueroa, Liza Dadone, Taylor Locklear, Matthew Johnston

Publication/Journal: Journal of Zoo and Wildlife Medicine

Keywords: animals, communicable diseases, giraffes, managed care programs, noncommunicable diseases, okapi, retrospective studies, ruminant, veterinary

2024

Can we eliminate the primate pet trade in the United States?

Authors: Marilyn A. Norconk, Sylvia Atsalis, Anne Savage

Publication/Journal: American Journal of Primatology

Keywords: illegal pet trade, primates

2024

Choice-based severity scale (CSS): assessing the relative severity of procedures from a laboratory animal’s perspective

Authors: Lauren Cassidy, Stefan Treue, Alexander Gail, Dana Pfefferle

Publication/Journal: PeerJ

Keywords: animal behavior, neuroscience, veterinary medicine, zoology

2024

Effects of time of day, visitor pressure and weather on the behaviour of captive American bison Bison bison

Authors: Rogerio Vicentini, Aline Cristina Sant’Anna, Wendy Mercedes Rauw, Diego Moya, Maria Delclaux Real de Asua, John Scott Church, Yuri Regis Montanholi

Publication/Journal: Journal of Zoo and Aquarium Research

Keywords: American buffalo, bovid, captive environment, meteorological parameters, remote monitoring, wild cattle

2024

A frog in hot water: the effect of temperature elevation on the adrenal stress response of an African amphibian

Authors: Juan Scheun, Leanne Venter, Andre Ganswindt

Publication/Journal: PeerJ

Keywords: bullfrog, Mucous, non-invasive, stress response, Thermal stressor, weight loss

2024

In Absentia—Can a Lack of Behaviour Be a Useful Welfare Indicator? An Application to the Captive Management of Livingstone’s Fruit Bats, Pteropus livingstonii

Authors: Morgan J. Edwards, Charlotte A. Hosie, Laura Naidenov, Eluned Price, Tessa E. Smith, Dominic Wormell, Christina R. Stanley

Publication/Journal: Journal of Zoological and Botanical Gardens

Keywords: behavioural indicator, chiroptera, hurdle models, individual welfare, obesity

2024

Internal and external factors affect pair mate proximity in captive coyotes, Canis latrans

Authors: Alexandra Turano, Stacey P. Brummer, Jeffrey T. Schultz, Julie K. Young, Sara M. Freeman

Publication/Journal: Animal Behaviour

Keywords: coyote, hormone, pair-bonding, progesterone, proximity, synchrony

2024

Paternal behavior in captive fat-tailed dwarf lemurs (Cheirogaleus medius) is preserved under socially relevant conditions

Authors: Marina B. Blanco, Rachel Bernstein, Laura M. Durlacher, Lisa Hathaway, Mandy Matson, James Sigafoos, Lynn Wells, Lydia K. Greene

Publication/Journal: Primates

Keywords: duke lemur center, hibernation, Pair-living Primate

2024

Validating a Non-Invasive Method for Assessing Cortisol Concentrations in Scraped Epidermal Skin from Common Bottlenose Dolphins and Belugas

Authors: Clara Agustí, Xavier Manteca, Daniel García-Párraga, Oriol Tallo-Parra

Publication/Journal: Animals

Keywords: cetacean, conservation biology, cortisol, keratin, skin, steroid hormones, stratum corneum, stress

2024

Visitor impacts on social dynamics and space use in captive Western lowland gorillas (Gorilla gorilla gorilla) in a naturalistic zoo exhibit: A new methodological approach

Authors: Hugo Leroy, Calogero Montedoro, Jean-Pascal Guery, Thierry Hance

Publication/Journal: Applied Animal Behaviour Science

Keywords: human-animal interactions, Naturalistic zoo exhibit, Ripley’s function, visitor effect, western lowland gorilla, zoo animal welfare

2024

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