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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.
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A minimally invasive method for gender determination in the prehensile-tailed porcupine (Coendou prehensilis)

Authors: Ana Margarita Woc-Colburn, Suzan Murray, Justin Lock, Jerry W. Dragoo, Dell Guglielmo, Jesús E. Maldonado

Publication/Journal: Zoo Biology

Keywords: coendou prehensilis, gender identification, molecular sexing, sex determining zinc finger region, zfx/zfy

2013

Zinc-finger intron 7: a new locus for sex identification of giant panda (Ailuropoda melanoleuca)

Authors: Xiao Xu, Yuzhi Li, Xiaofang Wang, Kun Wei, Wenping Zhang, Zhihe Zhang, Fujun Shen, Bisong Yue

Publication/Journal: Zoo Biology

Keywords: giant panda, noninvasive technique, sex identification, ursidae, zfx, zfy

2010

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