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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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Assessing the potential impact of zoo visitors on the welfare and cognitive performance of Japanese macaques

Authors: Sarah M Huskisson, Christina R Doelling, Stephen R Ross, Lydia M Hopper

Publication/Journal: Applied Animal Behaviour Science

Keywords: *cognitive bias, attention bias, monkey, touchscreen, visitor effect, zoo research

2021

Bold Frogs or Shy Toads? How Did the COVID-19 Closure of Zoological Organisations Affect Amphibian Activity?

Authors: Jack Boultwood, Michelle O’Brien, Paul Rose

Publication/Journal: Animals

Keywords: amphibian behaviour, amphibian welfare, COVID-19, enclosure usage, evidence-based husbandry, visitor effect

2021

Effects of Crowd Size, Composition, and Noise Level On Pool Use in a Mixed-Species Penguin Colony

Authors: A. N. Edes, E. Baskir, K. L. Bauman, N. Chandrasekharan, M. Macek, A. Tieber

Publication/Journal: Animal Behavior and Cognition

Keywords: behavior, decibel, visitor effects, welfare, zoo

2021

Effects of Nearby Construction Work on the Behavior of Asiatic Lions (Panthera leo persica)

Authors: Leah J Williams, Katherine Finch, Rose Agnew, Lisa Holmes

Publication/Journal: Journal of Zoological and Botanical Gardens

Keywords: behavior, construction, individual differences, lion, sound, welfare

2021

Impacts of environmental and human disturbances on behaviour of captive kiwi (Apteryx mantelli)

Authors: Katie Davison, Roberta L Farrell, Steven D Miller, Carolyn M King

Publication/Journal: New Zealand Journal of Zoology

Keywords: apteryx mantelli, disturbance of captive animals, noise, pacing, visitor management

2021

Localize Animal Sound Events Reliably (LASER): A New Software for Sound Localization in Zoos

Authors: Sebastian Schneider, Paul Wilhelm Dierkes

Publication/Journal: Journal of Zoological and Botanical Gardens

Keywords: acoustic multilateration, animal detection, animal sounds, animal welfare, behavioral research, bioacoustics, non-invasive, sound localization, TDOA, vocalization

2021

Silence is Golden: Auditory Preferences in Zoo-housed Gorillas

Authors: Jordyn Truax, Jennifer Vonk

Publication/Journal: Journal of Applied Animal Welfare Science

Keywords: choice, enrichment, gorilla, sound

2021

Studying Antillean manatees’(Trichechus manatus manatus) temperament in zoological parks: exploration of boldness, sociality and reactivity to humans

Authors: Aviva Charles, Yann Henaut, Michel Saint Jalme, Baptiste Mulot, Alexis Lecu, Fabienne Delfour

Publication/Journal: Applied Animal Behaviour Science

Keywords: conservation, manatees, novelty tests, personality questionnaire, temperament, welfare

2021

A System for Monitoring Acoustics to Supplement an Animal Welfare Plan for Bottlenose Dolphins

Authors: Brittany L Jones, Michael Oswald, Samantha Tufano, Mark Baird, Jason Mulsow, Sam H Ridgway

Publication/Journal: Journal of Zoological and Botanical Gardens

Keywords: acoustic monitoring, animal welfare, bioacoustics, communication, distress call, marine mammal, vocal behavior, vocal biomarkers

2021

Visitor presence and a changing soundscape, alongside environmental parameters, can predict enclosure usage in captive flamingos

Authors: Paul Rose, Alexander Badman‐King, Samantha Hurn, Tom Rice

Publication/Journal: Zoo Biology

Keywords: flamingos, sound, space usage, visitor effect, weather

2021

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