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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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Challenges of Zoo Animal Welfare

Authors: Ron Kagan, Jack Veasey

Publication/Journal: Wild Mammals in Captivity: Principles and Techniques for Zoo Management

Keywords: animal welfare, environment, stress, welfare indicators, zoo animals

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2010

Differing animal welfare conceptions and what they mean for the future of zoos and aquariums, insights from an animal welfare audit

Authors: Jake S Veasey

Publication/Journal: Zoo Biology

Keywords: animal welfare, audit

2022

Why the “Visitor Effect” Is Complicated. Unraveling Individual Animal, Visitor Number, and Climatic Influences on Behavior, Space Use and Interactions With Keepers—A Case Study on Captive Hornbills

Authors: Paul E Rose, Jake S Scales, James E Brereton

Publication/Journal: Frontiers in Veterinary Science

Keywords: bird behavior, black-casqued hornbill, Ceratogymna atrata, keeper effect, visitor effect, zoo animal welfare

2020

Assessing the Psychological Priorities for Optimising Captive Asian Elephant (Elephas maximus) Welfare

Authors: Jake Stuart Veasey

Publication/Journal: Animals

Keywords: animal welfare, appetitive, asian elephant, AWPIS, behavioural needs, cognition, motivation, psychological priorities, zoo

2019

In pursuit of peak animal welfare; the need to prioritize the meaningful over the measurable

Authors: Jake S. Veasey

Publication/Journal: Zoo Biology

Keywords: captive, health, optimal, peak, psychological, welfare

2017

An investigation of the auditory perception of western lowland gorillas in an enrichment study

Authors: Jake S. Brooker

Publication/Journal: Zoo Biology

Keywords: anxiety, auditory perception, gorillas, pitch, tempo, welfare

2016

How should the psychological well-being of zoo elephants be objectively investigated?

Authors: Georgia J. Mason, Jake S. Veasey

Publication/Journal: Zoo Biology

Keywords: cortisol, motivation, preference, stress, welfare, zoos

2010

What do population-level welfare indices suggest about the well-being of zoo elephants?

Authors: Georgia J. Mason, Jake S. Veasey

Publication/Journal: Zoo Biology

Keywords: acyclicity, captivity, longevity, stereotypic behavior, stress

2010

On Comparing the Behaviour of Zoo Housed Animals with Wild Conspecifics as a Welfare Indicator

Authors: J.S. Veasey, N.K. Waran, R.J. Young

Publication/Journal: Animal Welfare

Keywords: animal welfare, behavior, behaviour, behavioural needs, captive, motivation, wild

1996

On Comparing the Behaviour of Zoo Housed Animals with Wild Conspecifics as a Welfare Indicator, Using the Giraffe (Glraffa Camelopardalis) as a Model

Authors: J.S. Veasey, N.K. Waran, R.J. Young

Publication/Journal: Animal Welfare

Keywords: animal welfare, behavior, behaviour, captivity, giraffe, time-budget, wild

1996

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