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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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Integrating Reference Intervals into Chimpanzee Welfare Research

Authors: Jessica C Whitham, Katie Hall, Lisa K Lauderdale, Jocelyn L Bryant, Lance J Miller

Publication/Journal: Animals

Keywords: animal welfare, behavioral diversity, glucocorticoids, immunoglobulin a, reference interval

2023

Behavioural diversity as a potential welfare indicator for professionally managed chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes): Exploring variations in calculating diversity using species-specific behaviours

Authors: K Hall, J Bryant, M Staley, JC Whitham, LJ Miller

Publication/Journal: Animal Welfare

Keywords: animal welfare, behavioral diversity, chimpanzee, diversity index, faecal glucocorticoid metabolites, immunoglobulin a, shannon-wiener diversity index

2021

Cognitive Enrichment in Practice: A Survey of Factors Affecting Its Implementation in Zoos Globally

Authors: Belinda A Hall, David M McGill, Sally L Sherwen, Rebecca E Doyle

Publication/Journal: Animals

Keywords: animal enrichment, barriers to adoption, captive vertebrate management, cognition, practice change

2021

Understanding Temporal Social Dynamics in Zoo Animal Management: An Elephant Case Study

Authors: Ellen Williams, Samantha Bremner-Harrison, Carol Hall, Anne Carter

Publication/Journal: Animals

Keywords: evidence-based management, social behaviour, social groups, social networks, temporal dynamics, welfare, zoo elephant

2020

Using faecal glucocorticoid metabolite analyses to elucidate stressors of African wild dogs Lycaon pictus from South Africa

Authors: Bruce Crossey, Christian Chimimba, Cole du Plessis, Grant Hall, Andre Ganswindt

Publication/Journal: Wildlife Biology

Keywords: animal welfare, body condition scoring, faecal glucocorticoid metabolite monitoring, managed metapopulation, stress, wildlife management

2020

Exploring the relationship between personality and social interactions in zoo-housed elephants: Incorporation of keeper expertise

Authors: Ellen Williams, Anne Carter, Carol Hall, Samantha Bremner-Harrison

Publication/Journal: Applied Animal Behaviour Science

Keywords: Keeper expertise, personality, social behaviour, social relationships, welfare, zoo elephants

2019

Social Interactions in Zoo-Housed Elephants: Factors Affecting Social Relationships

Authors: E. Williams, A. Carter, C. Hall, S. Bremner-Harrison

Publication/Journal: Animals

Keywords: social behaviour, social relationships, welfare, zoo elephants

2019

What Is so Positive about Positive Animal Welfare?—A Critical Review of the Literature

Authors: Alistair B. Lawrence, Belinda Vigors, Peter Sandøe

Publication/Journal: Animals

Keywords: critical review, happiness, positive affective engagement, positive animal welfare, positive emotions, quality of life

2019

Indicators of stress in equitation

Authors: U. König v. Borstel, E. K. Visser, C. Hall

Publication/Journal: Applied Animal Behaviour Science

Keywords: behaviour, cortisol, heart rate variability, horse, riding, stress

2017

The influence of breed and environmental factors on social and solitary play in dogs (Canis lupus familiaris)

Authors: Lindsay R. Mehrkam, Nathaniel J. Hall, Chelsea Haitz, Clive D. L. Wynne

Publication/Journal: Learning & Behavior

Keywords: attention, breed, dog, environmental, predatory motor pattern, proximate mechanism, social play, solitary play, toy

2017

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