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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.
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ORAL HALOPERIDOL PREMEDICATION TO REDUCE CAPTURE STRESS PRIOR TO XYLAZINE-KETAMINE ANESTHESIA IN CAPTIVE SPOTTED DEER (AXIS AXIS)

Authors: Joju Johns, Nigel Caulkett, George Chandy, Jacob Alexander, Syam K Venugopal, Sooryadas Surendran, Ajithkumar Sreedharannair

Publication/Journal: Journal of Zoo and Wildlife Medicine

Keywords: axis axis, haloperidol, ketamine, spotted deer, stress, xylazine

2020


Alpha male status and availability of conceptive females are associated with high glucocorticoid concentrations in high-ranking male rhesus macaques (Macaca mulatta) during the mating season

Authors: Krista M. Milich, Alexander V. Georgiev, Rachel M. Petersen, Melissa Emery Thompson, Dario Maestripieri

Publication/Journal: Hormones and Behavior

Keywords: dominance rank, glucocorticoids, mating season

2018


A comparison of personality in the common and Bolivian squirrel monkey (Saimiri sciureus and Saimiri boliviensis)

Authors: Vanessa A. D. Wilson, Miho Inoue-Murayama, Alexander Weiss

Publication/Journal: Journal of Comparative Psychology

Keywords: agreeableness, animal ethology, animal personality, assertiveness, likert scales, monkeys, neuroticism, openness to experience, phylogenesis, primates (nonhuman)

2018


Chimpanzees with positive welfare are happier, extraverted, and emotionally stable

Authors: Lauren M. Robinson, Drew M. Altschul, Emma K. Wallace, Yulán Úbeda, Miquel Llorente, Zarin Machanda, Katie E. Slocombe, Matthew C. Leach, Natalie K. Waran, Alexander Weiss

Publication/Journal: Applied Animal Behaviour Science

Keywords: behaviour, chimpanzee, happiness, pan troglodytes, personality, welfare

2017


Common marmoset (Callithrix jacchus) personality

Authors: Sonja E. Koski, Hannah M. Buchanan-Smith, Hayley Ash, Judith M. Burkart, Thomas Bugnyar, Alexander Weiss

Publication/Journal: Journal of Comparative Psychology

Keywords: animal breeding, animal personality, interspecies interaction, primates (nonhuman)

2017


Face-based perception of emotions in dairy goats

Authors: Lucille G. A. Bellegarde, Marie J. Haskell, Christine Duvaux-Ponter, Alexander Weiss, Alain Boissy, Hans W. Erhard

Publication/Journal: Applied Animal Behaviour Science

Keywords: *cognitive bias, ear postures, emotions, face, goats

2017


A multi-zoo investigation of nutrient provision for captive red-crested turacos

Authors: Alexander J. Hulbert, Kerry A. Hunt, Paul E. Rose

Publication/Journal: Zoo Biology

Keywords: husbandry, multi-zoo study, nutrition, turaco, zootrition

2017


Risk-averse personalities have a systemically potentiated neuroendocrine stress axis: A multilevel experiment in Parus major

Authors: Alexander T. Baugh, Rebecca A. Senft, Marian Firke, Abigail Lauder, Julia Schroeder, Simone L. Meddle, Kees van Oers, Michaela Hau

Publication/Journal: Hormones and Behavior

Keywords: acth, behavioral syndromes, corticosterone, dexamethasone, glucocorticoid receptor, hpa axis, mineralocorticoid receptor, negative feedback, personality, stress

2017


Variability in hematology of white-spotted bamboo sharks (Chiloscyllium plagiosum) in different living environments

Authors: Lily A. Parkinson, Amy B. Alexander, Terry W. Campbell

Publication/Journal: Zoo Biology

Keywords: complete blood count, elasmobranch, stocking density

2017


Welfare Impacts of Spay/Neuter-Focused Outreach on Companion Animals in New York City Public Housing

Authors: Emily D. Dolan, Emily Weiss, Margaret R. Slater

Publication/Journal: Journal of Applied Animal Welfare Science

Keywords: animal shelter, cats, dogs, outreach, spay/neuter

2017


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