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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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Behaviour of Zoo-Housed Red Pandas (Ailurus fulgens): A Case-Study Testing the Behavioural Variety Index

Authors: Caterina Spiezio, Mariangela Altamura, Janno Weerman, Barbara Regaiolli

Publication/Journal: Journal of Zoological and Botanical Gardens

Keywords: animal welfare, maternal behaviour, red panda

2022

The More the Merrier? Zoo Visitors’ Affective Responses and Perceptions of Welfare across an Increase in Giraffe Density

Authors: Wilson C Sherman, Darren E Minier, Caterina N Meyers, Michelle L Myers

Publication/Journal: Journal of Zoological and Botanical Gardens

Keywords: affective experience, perceptions of animal welfare, visitor studies, zoos and aquariums

2022

Effects of Rearing on the Behaviour of Zoo-Housed Chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes)

Authors: Caterina Spiezio, Stefano Vaglio, Camille Vandelle, Camillo Sandri, Barbara Regaiolli

Publication/Journal: Folia Primatologica

Keywords: abnormal behaviors, human-rearing, mother-rearing, zoo-housed chimpanzees

2021

Is There a “Right” Side of Communicating Friendship? Lateralization of Social Interactions in Zoo Barbary macaques (Macaca sylvanus)

Authors: Marzia Baldachini, Barbara Regaiolli, Miquel Llorente, David Riba, Caterina Spiezio

Publication/Journal: Animals

Keywords: affiliative contacts, approach behavior, barbary macaque, laterality, proximity, social hierarchy

2021

Motion Illusions as Environmental Enrichment for Zoo Animals: A Preliminary Investigation on Lions (Panthera leo)

Authors: Barbara Regaiolli, Angelo Rizzo, Giorgio Ottolini, Maria Elena Miletto Petrazzini, Caterina Spiezio, Christian Agrillo

Publication/Journal: Frontiers in Psychology

Keywords: animal welfare, environmental enrichment, Rotating Snake illusion, visual illusions, zoo animals

2019

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

Does positive reinforcement training affect the behaviour and welfare of zoo animals? The case of the ring-tailed lemur (Lemur catta)

Authors: Caterina Spiezio, Stefano Vaglio, Consuelo Scala, Barbara Regaiolli

Publication/Journal: Applied Animal Behaviour Science

Keywords: animal well-being, captive primate behaviour, lemur catta, training programme

2017

Testing for the presence of coping styles in a wild mammal

Authors: Caterina Ferrari, Cristian Pasquaretta, Claudio Carere, Elena Cavallone, Achaz von Hardenberg, Denis Réale

Publication/Journal: Animal Behaviour

Keywords: breathing rate, cortisol, docility, heart rate, mcmcglmm, open-field test, personality, variance components

2013

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