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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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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

Recapturing the canopy: stimulating Bornean orang-utan (Pongo pygmaeus) natural locomotion behaviour in a zoo environment

Authors: Tom S Roth, Thomas R Bionda, Elisabeth H M Sterck

Publication/Journal: Journal of Zoo and Aquarium Research

Keywords: body postures, enclosure design, great apes, movement patterns, positional behaviour, zoo welfare

2017

Dominance relationships among siamang males living in multimale groups

Authors: Luca Morino

Publication/Journal: American Journal of Primatology

Keywords: flexible social system, intrasexual competition, mating success, monogamy, polyandry, reproductive skew

2016

Tree cover and injurious feather-pecking in commercial flocks of free-range laying hens: a follow up

Authors: A. Bright, R. Gill, T. H. Willings

Publication/Journal: Animal Welfare

Keywords: animal welfare, free range, injurious feather-pecking, laying hens, plumage damage, tree cover

2016

Effect of genotype, housing system and hay supplementation on performance and ear lesions of growing rabbits

Authors: K. Szendrő, Zs Szendrő, Zs Matics, A. Dalle Zotte, M. Odermatt, I. Radnai, Zs Gerencsér

Publication/Journal: Livestock Science

Keywords: breed, feeding, housing, production, rabbit, welfare

2015

The first case of intersexuality in an African dwarf crocodile (Osteolaemus tetraspis)

Authors: Sandra Langer, Kerstin Ternes, Dimitri Widmer, Frank Mutschmann

Publication/Journal: Zoo Biology

Keywords: african dwarf crocodile, intersexuality

2014

Reaching New Heights: The Effect of an Environmentally Enhanced Outdoor Enclosure on Gibbons in a Zoo Setting

Authors: Megan R. Anderson

Publication/Journal: Journal of Applied Animal Welfare Science

Keywords: environmental enrichment, gibbons, zoo

2014

Establishing ‘quality of life’ parameters using behavioural guidelines for humane euthanasia of captive non-human primates

Authors: S. P. Lambeth, S. J. Schapiro, B. J. Bernacky, G. K. Wilkerson

Publication/Journal: Animal Welfare

Keywords: animal welfare, behavioural assessment, captive management, euthanasia, non-human primates, quality of life

2013

Feeding and Resting Postures of Wild Northern Muriquis (Brachyteles hypoxanthus)

Authors: Maria F. Iurck, Matthew G. Nowak, Leny C. M. Costa, SÉRgio L. Mendes, Susan M. Ford, Karen B. Strier

Publication/Journal: American Journal of Primatology

Keywords: body size, posture, substrate use, tail-suspension, terminal canopy

2013

Obligate exudativory characterizes the diet of the pygmy slow loris Nycticebus pygmaeus

Authors: Carly Starr, K. A. I. Nekaris

Publication/Journal: American Journal of Primatology

Keywords: fallback foods, gummivory, radio-tracking, slow loris

2013

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