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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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Enriched social environment affects the utterance of acoustic signals of captive François’ langurs

Authors: Yinghong Xie, Yinshu Liu, Yifeng Li, Yanhong Zhong, Ruoshuang Liu, Penglai Fan

Publication/Journal: Applied Animal Behaviour Science

Keywords: animal welfare, social enrichment, vocal communication, vocal repertoire

2024

In Absentia—Can a Lack of Behaviour Be a Useful Welfare Indicator? An Application to the Captive Management of Livingstone’s Fruit Bats, Pteropus livingstonii

Authors: Morgan J. Edwards, Charlotte A. Hosie, Laura Naidenov, Eluned Price, Tessa E. Smith, Dominic Wormell, Christina R. Stanley

Publication/Journal: Journal of Zoological and Botanical Gardens

Keywords: behavioural indicator, chiroptera, hurdle models, individual welfare, obesity

2024

The effect of anthropogenic noise on foraging and vigilance in zoo housed pied tamarins

Authors: Fiene Steinbrecher, Jacob C. Dunn, Eluned C. Price, Lisa H. Buck, Claudia A. F. Wascher, Fay E. Clark

Publication/Journal: Applied Animal Behaviour Science

Keywords: animal behaviour, bioacoustics, callitrichid, primate, stressor

2023

The Integrated Effect of Environmental Conditions and Human Presence on the Behaviour of a Pair of Zoo-Housed Asian Small-Clawed Otters

Authors: Francesca Bandoli, Jenny Mace, Andrew Knight

Publication/Journal: Animals

Keywords: animal behaviour, animal welfare, Aonyx cinereus, human-animal interaction, otter welfare, zoo welfare

2023

Koalas showed limited behavioural response and no physiological response to drones

Authors: Diane Colombelli-Négrel, Imogen Z. Sach, Ian Hough, Jarrod C. Hodgson, Christopher B. Daniels, Sonia Kleindorfer

Publication/Journal: Applied Animal Behaviour Science

Keywords: Heart rate monitor, physiology, Sensory disturbance, stress response, UAVs

2023

Noise interfere on feeding behaviour but not on food preference of saffron finches (Sicalis flaveola)

Authors: Renan Henriques Lage Duarte, Marcela Fortes de Oliveira Passos, Marina Vale Beirão, Afiwa Midamegbe, Robert John Young, Cristiano Schetini de Azevedo

Publication/Journal: Behavioural Processes

Keywords: animal behavior, animal welfare, finches, noise pollution

2023

Time Budget and Activity Patterns During the Mating Period of Flat-headed Cat Prionailurus planiceps in Captivity

Authors: Patchara Danaisawadi, Sutida Piriyarom, Warit Krasaeden, Satreerat Pramkasem, Saranya Rurkkhum, Surasak Yimprasert

Publication/Journal: Tropical Natural History

Keywords:

2023

Behaviour of Zoo-Housed Red Pandas (Ailurus fulgens): A Case-Study Testing the Behavioural Variety Index

Authors: Caterina Spiezio, Mariangela Altamura, Janno Weerman, Barbara Regaiolli

Publication/Journal: Journal of Zoological and Botanical Gardens

Keywords: animal welfare, maternal behaviour, red panda

2022

Behavioural Development of Three Former Pet Chimpanzees a Decade after Arrival at the MONA Sanctuary

Authors: Olga Feliu, Marti Masip, Carmen Maté, Sònia Sánchez-López, Dietmar Crailsheim, Elfriede Kalcher-Sommersguter

Publication/Journal: Animals

Keywords: activity budget, chimpanzee, early life experience, pan troglodytes, pet and entertainment, re-socialization, sanctuary, well-being

2022

Day Time Activity Budgets, Height Utilization and Husbandry of Two Zoo-Housed Goodfellow’s Tree Kangaroos (Dendrolagus goodfellowi buergersi)

Authors: Katherine Finch, Amy Humphreys

Publication/Journal: Journal of Zoological and Botanical Gardens

Keywords: activity budget, behaviour, Dendrolagus, enclosure use, tree kangaroo, understudied

2022

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