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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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Individual variation in chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes) repertoires of abnormal behaviour

Authors: Z Goldsborough, EHM Sterck, FBM de Waal, CE Webb

Publication/Journal: Animal Welfare

Keywords: animal welfare, chimpanzees, coprophagy, stereotypical behavior, stress, zoo-housed

2022

Chopped and dispersed food enhances foraging and reduces stress-related behaviours in captive white-naped mangabeys (Cercocebus lunulatus)

Authors: Sophie Waasdorp, Joe A Tuffnell, Linda Bruins-van Sonsbeek, Chrispijn M Schilp, Yvonne RA van Zeeland, Elisabeth HM Sterck

Publication/Journal: Applied Animal Behaviour Science

Keywords: food distribution, food size, positive welfare indicators, primates, self-directed behaviours, zoo welfare

2021

Recapturing the canopy: stimulating Bornean orang-utan (Pongo pygmaeus) natural locomotion behaviour in a zoo environment

Authors: Tom S Roth, Thomas R Bionda, Elisabeth H M Sterck

Publication/Journal: Journal of Zoo and Aquarium Research

Keywords: body postures, enclosure design, great apes, movement patterns, positional behaviour, zoo welfare

2017

The effect of a diet change on regurgitation and reingestion in captive chimpanzees

Authors: Iris Mulder, Raymond van der Meer, Han de Vries, Elisabeth HM Sterck

Publication/Journal: Journal of Zoo and Aquarium Research

Keywords: captivity, chimpanzee, diet change, regurgitation and reingestion

2016

The behavioral context of visual displays in common marmosets (Callithrix jacchus)

Authors: Raïssa A. de Boer, Anne M. Overduin-de Vries, Annet L. Louwerse, Elisabeth H. M. Sterck

Publication/Journal: American Journal of Primatology

Keywords: body posture, common marmoset, communication, facial expression, social behavior

2013

Sneaky Monkeys: An Audience Effect of Male Rhesus Macaques (Macaca mulatta) on Sexual Behavior

Authors: A.M. Overduin-De Vries, J.J.M. Massen, B.M. Spruijt, E.H.M. Sterck

Publication/Journal: American Journal of Primatology

Keywords: audience effect, mating tactics, monopolization, primates, sexual behavior

2012

Take it or leave it: Transport of tools for future use by long-tailed macaques (Macaca fascicularis)

Authors: Dekleva, M. Van den Berg, L. Spruijt, BM. Sterck, EH.

Publication/Journal: Behavioural Processes

Keywords: long-tailedmacaques, planning, tooltransport.

2012

Socially deprived rhesus macaques fail to reconcile: do they not attempt or not accept reconciliation?

Authors: M. M. Kempes, E. Den Heijer, L. Korteweg, A. L. Louwerse, E. H. M. Sterck

Publication/Journal: Animal Behaviour

Keywords: macaca-mulatta, reconciliation, rhesus monkey, social deprivation

2009

Chimpanzees fail to plan in an exchange task but succeed in a tool-using procedure

Authors: Dufour, V. Sterck, EH.

Publication/Journal: Behavioural Processes

Keywords: *tool use, apes, chimpanzees, complex cognitive capacities, corvid species, exchange paradigm, material and social, planning, primates, prompting, social

2008

Social competence is reduced in socially deprived rhesus monkeys (Macaca mulatta)

Authors: M. M. Kempes, M. M. C. Gulickx, H. J. C. van Daalen, A. L. Louwerse, E. H. M. Sterck

Publication/Journal: Journal of Comparative Psychology

Keywords: anxiety, rhesus monkeys, social competence, social deprivation, social information processing

2008

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