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  2. Conduct and facilitate welfare assessments and applied welfare research on captive exotic animals.
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The Effects of Enrichment on Zoo-Housed Scarlet Ibis Behavior

Authors: Patrícia Rachinas-Lopes, Inês C. Rocha, Tiago Dias, Maria Tavares, Ricardo Neto, Carla Flanagan, João Neves

Publication/Journal: Animals

Keywords: behavior, captivity, environmental enrichment, Eudocimus ruber, scarlet ibis., Zoomarine Algarve

2024

The Effects of Enrichment on Zoo-Housed Scarlet Ibis Behavior

Authors: Patrícia Rachinas-Lopes, Inês C. Rocha, Tiago Dias, Maria Tavares, Ricardo Neto, Carla Flanagan, João Neves

Publication/Journal: Animals

Keywords: behavior, captivity, environmental enrichment, Eudocimus ruber, scarlet ibis., Zoomarine Algarve

2024

Investigating individual and social behaviour of the Northern bald ibis (Geronticus eremita): behavioural variety and welfare

Authors: Caterina Spiezio, Valentina Valsecchi, Camillo Sandri, Barbara Regaiolli

Publication/Journal: PeerJ

Keywords: Behavioural Variety Index, ethogram, threskiornithidae, welfare

2018

Ascaris spp. and Capillaria caudinflata infections in captive-bred crested ibis (Nipponia nippon) in China

Authors: Xu Zhang, Ji Ying Qiao, Xiao Min Wu, Qing Yi Ma, Han Hu, Jing Wang, Li Feng Che

Publication/Journal: Zoo Biology

Keywords: ascaris spp, capillaria caudinflata, captive-bred nipponia nippon, morphology, transmission

2015

Increasing breeding behaviors in a captive colony of Northern Bald Ibis through conspecific acoustic enrichment

Authors: J. A. Clark, A. Haseley, G. Van Genderen, M. Hofling, N. J. Clum

Publication/Journal: Zoo Biology

Keywords: geronticus eremita, hermit ibis, social facilitation, waldrapp ibis

2012

Phenology of body mass changes during reproduction in a nomadic, tropical waterbird, the Scarlet Ibis (Eudocimus ruber)

Authors: Gregory A. Babbitt, Peter C. Frederick

Publication/Journal: Zoo Biology

Keywords: avian, nomadism, nutrition, reproduction

2008

Effects of feeding enrichment on the behaviour and welfare of captive Waldrapps (Northern bald ibis) (Geronticus eremita)

Authors: H.E. Vargas-Ashby, S.J. Pankhurst

Publication/Journal: Animal Welfare

Keywords: animal welfare, bumblefoot, feeding enrichment, northern bald ibis, pododermatitis, waldrapp ibis

2007

Early social influence on nestling development in Waldrapp ibis (Geronticus eremita)

Authors: Angelika Tintner, Kurt Kotrschal

Publication/Journal: Zoo Biology

Keywords: growth, hand-raising, nestling competition, ontogeny, socialization, threskiornithidae

2002

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