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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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How to Recognize Animals’ Vulnerability: Questioning the Orthodoxies of Moral Individualism and Relationalism in Animal Ethics

Authors: Martin Huth

Publication/Journal: Animals

Keywords: immanent critique, moral individualism, recognizability, relationalism, vulnerability

2020


The Spillover Effect of a Flood on Pets and Their People: Implications for Rental Housing

Authors: Taryn M. Graham, Melanie J. Rock

Publication/Journal: Journal of Applied Animal Welfare Science

Keywords: companion animals, housing recovery, natural disaster, tenants, vulnerability

2019


The relationship between working horse welfare and their owners’ socio-economic status

Authors: R. Lanas, D. Luna, T. Tadich

Publication/Journal: Animal Welfare

Keywords: animal welfare, livelihood, poverty, quality of life, socio-economic status, working horse

2018


What is stressful for females? Differential effects of unpredictable environmental or social stress in CD1 female mice

Authors: Harold Dadomo, Laura Gioiosa, Jenny Cigalotti, Graziano Ceresini, Stefano Parmigiani, Paola Palanza

Publication/Journal: Hormones and Behavior

Keywords: anhedonia, anxiety, female models, sex differences, stress resilience, stress vulnerability

2018


Cognitive bias and paw preference in the domestic dog (Canis familiaris)

Authors: Deborah L. Wells, Peter G. Hepper, Adam D. S. Milligan, Shanis Barnard

Publication/Journal: Journal of Comparative Psychology

Keywords: *animal cognition, *choice behavior, *cognitive bias, *lateral dominance, *preferences, animal sex differences, dogs, motor processes

2017


Plasticity of thermoregulatory behavior in leopard geckos (Eublepharis macularius, Blyth 1954)

Authors: Octavian Craioveanu, Cristina Craioveanu, Vioara Mireşan

Publication/Journal: Zoo Biology

Keywords: nocturnal lizards, reptile husbandry, thermal gradient

2017


Prevalence of stereotypies and its possible causes among captive Asian elephants (Elephas maximus) in Tamil Nadu, India

Authors: Vanitha Varadharajan, Thiyagesan Krishnamoorthy, Baskaran Nagarajan

Publication/Journal: Applied Animal Behaviour Science

Keywords: asian elephant, chaining, conspecific association, maternal deprivation, stereotypies

2016


Ambient noise and parental communication of predation risk in tree swallows, Tachycineta bicolor

Authors: Emma McIntyre, Marty L. Leonard, Andrew G. Horn

Publication/Journal: Animal Behaviour

Keywords: acoustic signal, alarm call, begging call, noise, predation risk, tachycineta bicolor, tree swallow

2014


Enkephalin and dynorphin mRNA expression are associated with resilience or vulnerability to chronic social defeat stress

Authors: Patrick Bérubé, Sylvie Laforest, Seema Bhatnagar, Guy Drolet

Publication/Journal: Physiology & Behavior

Keywords: accumbens, amygdala, coping, endorphin, opioids

2013


Not all stressors are equal: Early social enrichment favors resilience to social but not physical stress in male mice

Authors: Igor Branchi, Sara Santarelli, Ivana D'Andrea, Enrico Alleva

Publication/Journal: Hormones and Behavior

Keywords: behavior, communal nesting, corticosterone, early experiences, match/mismatch hypothesis, physical, social, stress, stress quality

2013


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