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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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Do rhesus macaques, Macaca mulatta, understand what others know when gaze following?

Authors: Lindsey A. Drayton, Laurie R. Santos

Publication/Journal: Animal Behaviour

Keywords: gaze following, rhesus macaque, theory of mind

2017


Some Animals Are More Equal than Others: Wild Animal Welfare in the Media

Authors: R. E. Feber, E. M. Raebel, N. D'Cruze, D. W. Macdonald, S. E. Baker

Publication/Journal: Bioscience

Keywords: biology, conflict, conservation, coverage, ethics, humaneness, marine, media, pest-control, representations, science, standards, terrestrial, traps, wild animal welfare, wildlife management

2017


Technology advancing the study of animal cognition: using virtual reality to present virtually simulated environments to investigate nonhuman primate spatial cognition

Authors: Francine L. Dolins, Kenneth Schweller, Scott Milne

Publication/Journal: Current Zoology

Keywords:

2017


Closer to Nature? A Critical Discussion of the Marketing of “Ethical” Animal Products

Authors: S. Borkfelt, S. Kondrup, H. Rocklinsberg, K. Bjorkdahl, M. Gjerris

Publication/Journal: Journal of Agricultural & Environmental Ethics

Keywords: & philosophy of science, agriculture, animal ethics, animal welfare, attitudes, consumers, environmental sciences, ethics, green marketing, history, multidisciplinary, naturalness, values, welfare

2015


The behavioral satiety sequence in pigeons (Columba livia). Description and development of a method for quantitative analysis

Authors: William Anderson Spudeit, Natalia Saretta Sulzbach, Myla de A. Bittencourt, Anita Maurício Camillo Duarte, Hua Liang, Cilene Lino-de-Oliveira, José Marino-Neto

Publication/Journal: Physiology & Behavior

Keywords: behavioral satiety sequence, drinking, feeding, postprandial behavior, sleep

2013


Three-dimensional spatial cognition: freely swimming fish accurately learn and remember metric information in a volume

Authors: Robert I. Holbrook, Theresa Burt de Perera

Publication/Journal: Animal Behaviour

Keywords: astyanax fasciatus, banded tetra, fish, navigation, spatial cognition, three dimensions, volume

2013


Social bonds predict future cooperation in male Barbary macaques, Macaca sylvanus

Authors: Andreas Berghänel, Julia Ostner, Uta Schröder, Oliver Schülke

Publication/Journal: Animal Behaviour

Keywords: affenberg salem, barbary macaque, coalition, cooperation, macaca sylvanus, social bond, social relationship

2011


Improving animal welfare: qualitative and quantitative methodology in the study of farmers’ attitudes

Authors: T Kauppinen, A Vainio, A Valros, H Rita, KM Vesala

Publication/Journal: Animal Welfare

Keywords: animal welfare, attitude, farmer, production animal, qualitative attitude approach, theory of planned behaviour

2010


Observational methods to measure behaviors of captive cotton-top tamarins (Saguinus oedipus)

Authors: Lily N. Edwards, Andrew E. Sorkin, Richard C. Rhodes, Katherine H. Petersson

Publication/Journal: Zoo Biology

Keywords: behavioral monitoring, callitrichid, primate, sampling

2010


Cross-Modal Representation of Human Caretakers in Squirrel Monkeys

Authors: I. Adachi, K. Fujita

Publication/Journal: Behavioural Processes

Keywords: cross-modal representation, natural concepts, squirrel monkey

2007


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