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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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Hibernating or not hibernating? Brown bears’ response to a mismatch between environmental natural cues and captive management, and its welfare implications

Authors: Paolo Dori, Isabella Anastasio, Elisabetta Macchi, Isabella Manenti, Maik Hones, Monica Carosi

Publication/Journal: PLOS ONE

Keywords: animal welfare, captive management, cues, environment, physiology

2024

Aging Gracefully: Compassion for Nonhuman Animal Elders

Authors: Joachim Nieuwland, Franck Meijboom

Publication/Journal: Optimal Wellbeing of Ageing Wild Animals in Human Care

Keywords: aging, compassionate care, geriatric, welfare, wellbeing

2023

Recent Studies in Reptile and Amphibian Welfare: Some Relevant Publications for the Zoo Herpetologist

Authors: Robert W. Mendyk

Publication/Journal: Herpetological Review

Keywords: amphibian, reptile, welfare, zoo

2022

Training penguins to interact with enrichment devices for lasting effects

Authors: E. J. Fernandez, R. C. Kinley, W. Timberlake

Publication/Journal: Zoo Biology

Keywords: animal welfare, enrichment, husbandry, penguins, training, zoos

2019

Human disturbance affects personality development in a wild carnivore

Authors: Julia R. Greenberg, Kay E. Holekamp

Publication/Journal: Animal Behaviour

Keywords: anthropogenic disturbance, human–wildlife conflict, neophobia, personality, social rank, spotted hyaena, temperament

2017

Empathy towards animals and belief in animal-human-continuity in Italian veterinary students

Authors: E. S. Colombo, A. Pelosi, E. Prato-Previde

Publication/Journal: Animal Welfare

Keywords: animal welfare, empathy, gender differences, human-animal continuity, veterinary medicine, veterinary students

2016

Unpredictability in food supply during early life influences growth and boldness in European seabass, Dicentrarchus labrax

Authors: Ferrari Sébastien, Didier Leguay, Alain Vergnet, Marie-Odile Vidal, Béatrice Chatain, Marie-Laure Bégout

Publication/Journal: Applied Animal Behaviour Science

Keywords: behavior, dicentrarchus labrax, environmental effect, exploration, food deprivation divergent strains, personality

2016

Show Horse Welfare: Evaluating Stock-Type Show Horse Industry Legitimacy

Authors: M. Voigt, M. Russell, K. Hiney, J. Richardson, A. Borron, C. Brady

Publication/Journal: Journal of Agricultural & Environmental Ethics

Keywords: & philosophy of science, agriculture, animals, attitudes, environmental sciences, ethics, history, horse, legitimacy, moral disengagement, multidisciplinary, show horse, social cognitive theory, welfare

2015

Modifying and commodifying farm animal welfare: The economisation of layer chickens

Authors: Henry Buller, Emma Roe

Publication/Journal: Journal of Rural Studies

Keywords: animal welfare, economisation, egg-laying hens

2014

Early experiences modulate stress coping in a population of German shepherd dogs

Authors: Pernilla Foyer, Erik Wilsson, Dominic Wright, Per Jensen

Publication/Journal: Applied Animal Behaviour Science

Keywords: behaviour, early experience, personality, stress, temperament test, working dog

2013

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