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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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Behavioral and endocrine correlates of dominance in captive female Jackson’s hartebeest (Alcelaphus buselaphus)

Authors: Kelly S. Spratt, Jeffrey S. Spratt, Joan E. Bauman, Charles Ray Chandler

Publication/Journal: Zoo Biology

Keywords: antelope, captive management, fecal corticoids, social rank, stress

2019

Oxytocin and the warm outer glow: Thermoregulatory deficits cause huddling abnormalities in oxytocin-deficient mouse pups

Authors: Christopher Harshaw, Joseph K. Leffel, Jeffrey R. Alberts

Publication/Journal: Hormones and Behavior

Keywords: behavioral phenotyping, brown adipose tissue, huddling, mice, oxytocin

2018

Oxytocin modulates mate-guarding behavior in marmoset monkeys

Authors: Jon Cavanaugh, Aaryn Mustoe, Stephanie L. Womack, Jeffrey A. French

Publication/Journal: Hormones and Behavior

Keywords: 899®, aggression, L-368, mate-guarding, monogamy, oxytocin, pairbond, primates, Pro-OT, sociality

2018

Associations between milk intake and activity in the first days of a calf’s life and later growth and health

Authors: Anne Marie de Passillé, Marine Rabeyrin, Jeffrey Rushen

Publication/Journal: Applied Animal Behaviour Science

Keywords: activity, calf vigour, dairy calf, health, milk intake, weight gain

2016

Voluntary food sharing in pinyon jays: the role of reciprocity and dominance

Authors: Juan F. Duque, Jeffrey R. Stevens

Publication/Journal: Animal Behaviour

Keywords: corvid, direct reciprocity, dominance, food sharing, generalized reciprocity, prosocial behaviour

2016

The effect of nursing on the cow–calf bond

Authors: Julie Føske Johnsen, Anne Marie de Passille, Cecilie Marie Mejdell, Knut Egil Bøe, Ann Margaret Grøndahl, Annabelle Beaver, Jeffrey Rushen, Daniel M. Weary

Publication/Journal: Applied Animal Behaviour Science

Keywords: animal welfare, dairy, dam rearing, growth, maternal bond

2015

Modification of aviary design reduces incidence of falls, collisions and keel bone damage in laying hens

Authors: Ariane Stratmann, Ernst Konrad Friederich Fröhlich, Sabine Gabriele Gebhardt-Henrich, Alexandra Harlander-Matauschek, Hanno Würbel, Michael Jeffrey Toscano

Publication/Journal: Applied Animal Behaviour Science

Keywords: aviary system, keel bone damage, laying hens, moving behavior

2015

Oxytocin and vasopressin enhance responsiveness to infant stimuli in adult marmosets

Authors: Jack H. Taylor, Jeffrey A. French

Publication/Journal: Hormones and Behavior

Keywords: biparental, maternal, neuropeptide, paternal, primate

2015

Attitudes of Canadian citizens toward farm animal welfare: A qualitative study

Authors: Jeffrey M. Spooner, Catherine A. Schuppli, David Fraser

Publication/Journal: Livestock Science

Keywords: animal welfare, canada, consumers, food animals, public

2014

Behavioral responses to social separation stressor change across development and are dynamically related to HPA activity in marmosets

Authors: Jack H. Taylor, Aaryn C. Mustoe, Jeffrey A. French

Publication/Journal: American Journal of Primatology

Keywords: co-activation, development, hpa, marmoset, sex differences, stress

2014

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