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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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  4. Train professionals on captive exotic animal welfare best practices and policies.
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Appetitive Search Behaviors and Stereotypies in Polar Bears (Ursus maritimus)

Authors: Eduardo J Fernandez

Publication/Journal: Behavioural Processes

Keywords: appetitive behavior, polar bears, response-independent schedules, stereotypies, welfare, zoos

2020

Evaluation of the Impact of Behavioral Opportunities on Four Zoo-Housed Aardvarks (Orycteropus afer)

Authors: Jennifer Hamilton, Grace Fuller, Stephanie Allard

Publication/Journal: Animals

Keywords: animal welfare, corticosterone, environmental enrichment, fecal glucocorticoid metabolites, goal-based enrichment, nocturnal species

2020

Change in stingray behaviour and social networks in response to the scheduling of husbandry events

Authors: Holly L Farmer, Georgia Murphy, Joanna Newbolt

Publication/Journal: Journal of Zoo and Aquarium Research

Keywords: aggression, positive reinforcement training, predictability, social network analysis, stingray, welfare

2019

Growth rates of juvenile Boa constrictor under two feeding regimes

Authors: Robert L. Hill, Sarah M. Huskisson, Emily Weigel, Joseph R. Mendelson III

Publication/Journal: Zoo Biology

Keywords: boidae, diet, evidence‐based husbandry, snake

2019

How does feeding regime affect behaviour and activity in captive African lions (Panthera leo)?

Authors: Nina Höttges, Madeleine Hjelm, Therese Hård, Matthias %J Journal of Zoo Laska, Aquarium Research

Publication/Journal: Journal of Zoo and Aquarium Research

Keywords: feeding regime, felids, hunger, husbadry, satiation

2019

A Zoo Animal’s Neighbourhood: How Conspecific Neighbours Impact Welfare

Authors: J. C. Whitham, L. J. Miller

Publication/Journal: Animal Welfare

Keywords: animal welfare, behaviour, conspecific neighbours, physiology, welfare monitoring, zoo animals

2019

Exposing avian embryos to light affects post-hatch anti-predator fear responses

Authors: Gregory S. Archer, Joy A. Mench

Publication/Journal: Applied Animal Behaviour Science

Keywords: avian, embryo, fear, incubation, lateralization, light

2017

Simple but temporally unpredictable puzzles are cognitive enrichment

Authors: Krebs, B. L., & Watters, J. V.

Publication/Journal: Animal Behavior and Cognition

Keywords: animal welfare, anticipatory behavior, foraging enrichment, reward schedules

2017

Effects of experimentally necessary changes in husbandry on olfactory memory: Chronic food restriction and social isolation

Authors: Laura Manella, Leuk Woldeyohannes, Devon McMahon, Christiane Linster

Publication/Journal: Physiology & Behavior

Keywords: food restriction, memory, olfactory, social isolation

2016

Minutes matter: brief hatching asynchrony adversely affects late-hatched hihi nestlings, but not life beyond the nest

Authors: Kirsty J. MacLeod, Patricia Brekke, John G. Ewen, Rose Thorogood

Publication/Journal: Animal Behaviour

Keywords: brood hierarchies, carotenoids, hatching asynchrony, maternal effects, notiomystis cincta

2016

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