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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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Cortisol treatment affects locomotor activity and swimming behaviour of male smallmouth bass engaged in paternal care: A field study using acceleration biologgers

Authors: Dirk A. Algera, Jacob W. Brownscombe, Kathleen M. Gilmour, Michael J. Lawrence, Aaron J. Zolderdo, Steven J. Cooke

Publication/Journal: Physiology & Behavior

Keywords: accelerometer, glucocorticoid, parental care, parental investment, teleost

2017

Measuring heart rate variability in horses to investigate the autonomic nervous system activity – Pros and cons of different methods

Authors: Diana Stucke, Mareile Große Ruse, Dirk Lebelt

Publication/Journal: Applied Animal Behaviour Science

Keywords: autonomic nervous system, autoregressive modelling (ar), fast fourier transform (fft), frequency-domain analysis, heart rate variability (hrv), horse

2015

Flocking for food or flockmates?

Authors: Lucy Asher, Lisa M. Collins, Dirk U. Pfeiffer, Christine J. Nicol

Publication/Journal: Applied Animal Behaviour Science

Keywords: agent-based model, group cohesion, group movements, laying hens, leadership

2013

Characteristics of Relinquished Dogs and Their Owners at 14 Rehoming Centers in the United Kingdom

Authors: Gillian Diesel, David Brodbelt, Dirk U. Pfeiffer

Publication/Journal: Journal of Applied Animal Welfare Science

Keywords: animal shelter, dogs, relinquishment

2010

Sexual recruitment of the corals Favia fragum and Agaricia humilis in a 30-m3 exhibit aquarium: species-specific limitations and implications on reproductive ecology

Authors: Dirk Petersen, Michaël Laterveer, Gerard Visser

Publication/Journal: Zoo Biology

Keywords: brooder, captive breeding, ex situ, life history, mesocosm, sexual reproduction

2007

Transportation techniques for massive scleractinian corals

Authors: Dirk Petersen, Michaël Laterveer, David van Bergen, Maureen Kuenen

Publication/Journal: Zoo Biology

Keywords: conservation, diploria strigosa, ex situ, montastraea annularis, public aquarium, transfer

2004

A Quantitative Analysis of the Incubation Behavior of Adelie Penguins

Authors: Dirk V. Derksen

Publication/Journal: The Auk

Keywords: adélie penguin, behavior, incubation, penguin

1977

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