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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.
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Social referencing: Water rescue trained dogs are less affected than pet dogs by the stranger’s message

Authors: I. Merola, S. Marshall-Pescini, B. D’Aniello, E. Prato-Previde

Publication/Journal: Applied Animal Behaviour Science

Keywords: behavioural regulation, dogs, referential looking, social referencing, stranger, training

2013

Influence of prey odor concentration on the poststrike trailing behavior of the Northern Pacific rattlesnake

Authors: Tamara L. Smith, Gideon S. Bevelander, Kenneth V. Kardong

Publication/Journal: Herpetologica

Keywords: chemoreception, crotalus viridis oreganus, poststrike trailing, predatory behavior, predatory behaviour, rattlesnakes, sics

2005

Strike-induced chemosensory searching (SICS) in northern Pacific rattlesnakes (Crotalus viridis oreganus, Holbrook, 1840) rescued from substandard husbandry conditions. II. Complete recovery of function after two years

Authors: David Chiszar, Kristine DeWelde, Milena Garcia, Dana Payne, Hobart M. Smith

Publication/Journal: Zoo Biology

Keywords: predation, rehabilitation, vomerolfaction

1999

Prey chemical discrimination and strike-induced chemosensory searching in lizards: Their absence in a crotaphytid lizard (Crotaphytus collaris) and a proposal for research in zoos

Authors: William E. Cooper, Christopher S. DePerno, Stanley F. Fox

Publication/Journal: Zoo Biology

Keywords: chemosensory behavior, crotaphytidae, iguania, squamata

1996

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