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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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Does zoo visitor presence and noise impact the behaviour and enclosure use of zoo-housed Siamese crocodiles? A case study

Authors: Kevin Gray, James Edward Brereton, Alexandros Theodorou

Publication/Journal: Journal of Zoo and Aquarium Research

Keywords: crocodilian, Electivity Index, enclosure design, post-occupancy evaluation, visitor presence

2024

Evaluation of the stress state based on fecal corticosterone metabolite concentrations in captive penguins in Japan

Authors: Megumi Itoh, Misato Kitahara, Nanako Sawayama, Naoya Matsumoto, Takahito Toyotome, Kazutaka Yamada

Publication/Journal: Journal of Veterinary Medical Science

Keywords: captive penguin, diseased individual, fecal corticosterone metabolite, hot season, molting period

2024

Evidence-based zoo animal welfare assessment: Putting science into practice

Authors: Marina Salas, Oriol Tallo-Parra, Xavier Manteca

Publication/Journal: Journal of Zoo and Aquarium Research

Keywords: behaviour, physiology, validation, welfare indicators, zoo animal welfare

2024

Health and environmental effects to wildlife from radio telemetry and tracking devices—state of the science and best management practices

Authors: Albert M. Manville, B. Blake Levitt, Henry C. Lai

Publication/Journal: Frontiers in Veterinary Science

Keywords: data-loggers, fish, microchips, PIT tags, radio telemetry, radio-tracking, RFID chips, wildlife

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

Investigating the relationship between abiotic factors and the behaviour of an All-Male Nile crocodile (Crocodylus niloticus) Group

Authors: Austin Leeds, Alex Riley, Laura Stalter, Megan Terry, Andrew C. Alba, Joseph Soltis

Publication/Journal: Applied Animal Behaviour Science

Keywords: Abiotic influences, animal behaviour, animal welfare, Crocodilian behaviour, reptile welfare

2024

Investigation through Animal–Computer Interaction: A Proof-of-Concept Study for the Behavioural Experimentation of Colour Vision in Zoo-Housed Primates

Authors: Vinícius Donisete Lima Rodrigues Goulart, Robert John Young

Publication/Journal: Animals

Keywords: ACI, animal experimentation, animal welfare, animal-computer-interaction, behavioural research, colour vision, sensory ecology, zoo

2024

Nutrition in captive penguins: What do we know about how can we make it better?

Authors: Bruna Maganhe

Publication/Journal: Journal of Zoo and Aquarium Research

Keywords: animal nutrition, energy requirements, feeding guidelines, polar habitat, spheniscidae

2024

Repeatability of measures of behavioral organization over two years in captive infant rhesus macaques, Macaca mulatta

Authors: Alexander J. Pritchard, John P. Capitanio, Laura Del Rosso, Brenda McCowan, Jessica J. Vandeleest

Publication/Journal: American Journal of Primatology

Keywords: biobehavioral assessment, emotionality, infant temperament, macaca-mulatta, personality-traits, rhesus macaque

2024

Shared Accountability Shaping the Destinies of Individual and Groups of Nonhuman Primates

Authors: Ori Pomerantz, Gregory Brion Timmel

Publication/Journal: Veterinary Sciences

Keywords: collaboration, group housing, integrative approach, rhesus macaque, welfare

2024

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