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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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Cumulative experience, age-class, sex and season affect the behavioural responses of European badgers (Meles meles) to handling and sedation

Authors: Q. Sun, C. Stevens, C. Newman, C. D. Buesching, D. W. Macdonald

Publication/Journal: Animal Welfare

Keywords: animal welfare, badger, behavioural response, injection, restraint, sedation

2015

Improving animal welfare standards while reducing disease exposure risk during euthanasia of trapped brushtail possums (Trichosurus vulpecula)

Authors: C. Rouco, K. S. Richardson, D. M. Tompkins

Publication/Journal: Animal Welfare

Keywords: air rifle, animal welfare, blunt-force trauma, shooting, tuberculosis, wildlife capture

2015

Highly Accurate Antibody Assays for Early and Rapid Detection of Tuberculosis in African and Asian Elephants

Authors: R. Greenwald, O. Lyashchenko, J. Esfandiari, M. Miller, S. Mikota, J. H. Olsen, R. Ball, G. Dumonceaux, D. Schmitt, T. Moller, J. B. Payeur, B. Harris, D. Sofranko, W. R. Waters, K. P. Lyashchenko

Publication/Journal: Clinical and Vaccine Immunology

Keywords: elephants, mycobacterium tuberculosis, trunk wash culture, tuberculosis, zoonotic disease

2009

Animal Health 2006: The Report of the Chief Veterinary Officer

Authors: Debby Reynolds

Publication/Journal:

Keywords: animal health, animal welfare, bovine spongiform encephalopathy, bovine tuberculosis, disease control, farm animals

2006

Outbreak of Mycobacterium marinum infection among captive snakes and bullfrogs

Authors: Joel N. Maslow, Roberta Wallace, Margaret Michaels, Holly Foskett, Elizabeth A. Maslow, Julia A. Kiehlbauch

Publication/Journal: Zoo Biology

Keywords: amphibian tuberculosis, genotyping, mycobacterium marinum, pulsed field gel electrophoresis, snake tuberculosis

2002

Behavioural Adaptation of Brushtail Possums (Trichosurus Vulpecula) to Captivity

Authors: T.D. Day, C.E. O'Connor

Publication/Journal: Animal Welfare

Keywords: animal welfare, behavior, behaviour, brushtail possum, captivity, trichosurus vulpecula

2000

Tuberculosis in Elephants in North America

Authors: Susan K. Mikota, R. Scott Larsen, Richard J. Montali

Publication/Journal: Zoo Biology

Keywords: bacterial disease, elephas maximus, loxodonta africana, tuberculosis

2000

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