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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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Is sentinel behaviour safe? An experimental investigation

Authors: Amanda R. Ridley, Martha J. Nelson-Flower, Alex M. Thompson

Publication/Journal: Animal Behaviour

Keywords: cooperative breeding, kin selection, pied babbler, safe location, selfish sentinel, sentinel behaviour, turdoides bicolor

2013

Meerkat helpers increase sentinel behaviour and bipedal vigilance in the presence of pups

Authors: Peter Santema, Tim Clutton-Brock

Publication/Journal: Animal Behaviour

Keywords: cooperative breeding, helping, meerkat, sentinel, suricata suricatta, vigilance

2013

Dominant nestlings displaying female-like melanin coloration behave altruistically in the barn owl

Authors: Alexandre Roulin, Arnaud Da Silva, Charlène A. Ruppli

Publication/Journal: Animal Behaviour

Keywords: altruism, barn owl, cooperation, egoism, food sharing, food stealing, melanin, selfish, sibling competition, tyto alba

2012

Ethology applied to animal ethics

Authors: Hanno Würbel

Publication/Journal: Applied Animal Behaviour Science

Keywords: animal rights, animal welfare, applied ethology, behavior, behaviour, compassion, empathy, ethics, integrity, legislation, sentience, suffering, utilitarianism, well-being

2009

The effects of unequal reward distributions on cooperative problem solving by cottontop tamarins, Saguinus oedipus

Authors: Katherine A. Cronin, Charles T. Snowdon

Publication/Journal: Animal Behaviour

Keywords: cognition, competition, cooperation, cottontop tamarin, mutualism, reciprocal altruism, reciprocity, saguinus oedipus

2008

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