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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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Orangutans’ Comprehension of Zoo Keepers’ Communicative Signals

Authors: Guillaume Dezecache, Aude Bourgeois, Christophe Bazin, Philippe Schlenker, Emmanuel Chemla, Audrey Maille

Publication/Journal: Animals

Keywords: animal welfare, gestures, inter-species communication, medical training, orangutans, speech

2019

Stall architecture influences horses’ behaviour and the prevalence and type of stereotypies

Authors: Clémence Lesimple, Emmanuel Gautier, Haïfa Benhajali, Céline Rochais, Christophe Lunel, Samia Bensaïd, Adala Khalloufi, Séverine Henry, Martine Hausberger

Publication/Journal: Applied Animal Behaviour Science

Keywords: horse, housing, stereotypic/abnormal repetitive behaviours, time-budget, welfare

2019

Comparison of male conflict behavior in chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes) and bonobos (Pan paniscus), with specific regard to coalition and post-conflict behavior

Authors: Martin Surbeck, Christophe Boesch, Cédric Girard-Buttoz, Catherine Crockford, Gottfried Hohmann, Roman M. Wittig

Publication/Journal: American Journal of Primatology

Keywords: aggression, apes, coalitions, cooperation, grooming, reconciliation

2017

Assessment of anxiety in open field and elevated plus maze using infrared thermography

Authors: Benjamin Lecorps, Heiko G. Rödel, Christophe Féron

Publication/Journal: Physiology & Behavior

Keywords: anxiety, emotion, infrared thermography, unconditioned fear tests

2016

Animal Welfare: Could Adult Play be a False Friend?

Authors: C. Blois-Heulin, C. Rochais, S. Camus, C. Fureix, A. Lemasson, C Lunel, E. Bézard, M. Hausberger

Publication/Journal: Animal Behavior and Cognition

Keywords: Campbell’s monkeys, captivity, horses, life condition, long-tailed macaques, mangabeys, rhesus macaques, stereotypies, stress

2015

Personality tests predict responses to a spatial-learning task in mallards, Anas platyrhynchos

Authors: Christophe A. H. Bousquet, Odile Petit, Mathilde Arrivé, Jean-Patrice Robin, Cédric Sueur

Publication/Journal: Animal Behaviour

Keywords: behavioural flexibility, learning, mallards, maze, personality

2015

Unpredictable mild stressors on laying females influence the composition of Japanese quail eggs and offspring’s phenotype

Authors: Floriane Guibert, Marie-Annick Richard-Yris, Sophie Lumineau, Kurt Kotrschal, Aline Bertin, Christophe Petton, Erich Möstl, Cécilia Houdelier

Publication/Journal: Applied Animal Behaviour Science

Keywords: animal welfare, behavioral development, behavioural development, coturnix c. japonica, maternal effects, prenatal stress, yolk steroids

2011

The cocktail party problem: What is it? How can it be solved? And why should animal behaviorists study it?

Authors: Mark A. Bee, Christophe Micheyl

Publication/Journal: Journal of Comparative Psychology

Keywords: acoustic communication, animal communication

2008

Visual Discrimination by Heifers (Bos taurus) of Their Own Species

Authors: Marjorie Coulon, Bertrand L. Deputte, Yvan Heyman, Laurent Delatouche, Christophe Richard, Claude Baudoin

Publication/Journal: Journal of Comparative Psychology

Keywords: cattle prim'holstein, instrumental conditioning, s+/s– paradigm, species discrimination, visual stimuli

2007

What makes us human (Homo sapiens)? The challenge of cognitive cross-species comparison

Authors: Christophe Boesch

Publication/Journal: Journal of Comparative Psychology

Keywords: chimpanzee, cognition, comparison, human, within-species variation

2007

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