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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.
URL: https://detroitzoo.org/resources/?ignore=title%2Cabstract%2Cpublication%2Ckeywords&fwp_search=Derek%20A%20Rosenfield

Influence of environmental enrichment on the behavioral variables of caged Hyacinth Macaws (Anodorhynchus hyacinthinus)

Authors: Cristiane Tibério Checon, Derek A Rosenfield, Pedro Nacib Jorge-Neto, Cristiane Schilbach Pizzutto

Publication/Journal: Ornithology Research

Keywords: animal welfare, environmental enrichment, hyacinth macaw

2020

Correlates of home range sizes of giraffes, Giraffa camelopardalis

Authors: Mara A. Knüsel, Derek E. Lee, Barbara König, Monica L. Bond

Publication/Journal: Animal Behaviour

Keywords: giraffe, home range estimation, kernel utilization distribution, minimum convex polygon

2019

Providing ‘get-away bunks’ and other enrichments to primiparous adult female mink improves their reproductive productivity

Authors: Misha Buob, Rebecca Meagher, Lauren Dawson, Rupert Palme, Derek Haley, Georgia Mason

Publication/Journal: Applied Animal Behaviour Science

Keywords: bunks, cortisol, enrichments, infant mortality, mink, nursing sickness, welfare

2013

Providing elevated ‘getaway bunks’ to nursing mink dams improves their health and welfare

Authors: Lauren Dawson, Misha Buob, Derek Haley, Steve Miller, Judy Stryker, Margaret Quinton, Georgia Mason

Publication/Journal: Applied Animal Behaviour Science

Keywords: bunks, mastitis, mink, nursing, nursing sickness, welfare

2013

Discounting the freedom to choose: Implications for the paradox of choice

Authors: Derek D. Reed, Brent A. Kaplan, Adam T. Brewer

Publication/Journal: Behavioural Processes

Keywords: choice, choice overload, discounting, paradox of choice, search costs

2012

Butting by calves,Bos taurus, and rate of milk flow

Authors: Derek B. Haley, Jeffrey Rushen, Ian J. H. Duncan, Tina M. Widowski, Anne Marie De PassillÉ

Publication/Journal: Animal Behaviour

Keywords: animal behavior, animal behaviour, butting, calves, milk flow

1998

Modeling problems in conservation genetics using captive Drosophila populations: Improvement of reproductive fitness due to immigration of one individual into small partially inbred populations

Authors: Derek Spielman, Richard Frankham

Publication/Journal: Zoo Biology

Keywords: inbreeding, translocation, wild populations

1992

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