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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=Joel%20Ledford

Comparative well-being of horses kept under total or partial confinement prior to employment for mounted patrols

Authors: Gabriela O. Pessoa, Pablo Trigo, Francisco D. Mesquita Neto, Antônio C. C. Lacreta Junior, Ticiana M. Sousa, Joel A. Muniz, Raquel S. Moura

Publication/Journal: Applied Animal Behaviour Science

Keywords: behaviour, heart rate variability, horse, police, stall, stress

2016


Housing conditions do not alter cognitive bias but affect serum cortisol, qualitative behaviour assessment and wounds on the carcass in pigs

Authors: Ricard Carreras, Eva Mainau, Laura Arroyo, Xènia Moles, Joel González, Anna Bassols, Antoni Dalmau, Luigi Faucitano, Xavier Manteca, Antonio Velarde

Publication/Journal: Applied Animal Behaviour Science

Keywords: *cognitive bias, carcass wounds, cortisol, housing conditions, pigs, qualitative behaviour assessment

2016


Morbidity and Mortality of Invertebrates, Amphibians, Reptiles, and Mammals at a Major Exotic Companion Animal Wholesaler

Authors: Shawn Ashley, Susan Brown, Joel Ledford, Janet Martin, Ann-Elizabeth Nash, Amanda Terry, Tim Tristan, Clifford Warwick

Publication/Journal: Journal of Applied Animal Welfare Science

Keywords: animal welfare, disease, exotic animal sales, mortality

2014


Identifying Sykes’ monkeys’, Cercopithecus albogularis erythrarchus, axes of fear through patch use

Authors: Sara E. Emerson, Joel S. Brown, Jabu D. Linden

Publication/Journal: Animal Behaviour

Keywords: cercopithecus albogularis erythrarchus, giving-up density, landscape of fear, patch use, predation risk, primate foraging, samango monkey, sykes' monkey

2011


Threat detection: Behavioral practices in animals and humans

Authors: David Eilam, Rony Izhar, Joel Mort

Publication/Journal: Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews

Keywords: anxiety, group dynamics, isolation, obsessive-compulsive disorder (ocd), precaution, rituals, vigilance

2011


Male-female interactions affect foraging behaviour within groups of small-spotted catshark, Scyliorhinus canicula

Authors: Joel A. Kimber, David W. Sims, Patricia H. Bellamy, Andrew B. Gill

Publication/Journal: Animal Behaviour

Keywords: avoidance, conflict, elasmobranch, electroreception, foraging behavior, harassment, refuging, scyliorhinus canicula, segregation, sex, small-spotted catshark

2009


Rapid ecological and behavioural changes in carnivores: the responses of black bears (Ursus americanus) to altered food

Authors: Jon P. Beckmann, Joel Berger

Publication/Journal: Journal of Zoology

Keywords: behaviour, human-altered landscapes, ursus americanus

2003


Outbreak of Mycobacterium marinum infection among captive snakes and bullfrogs

Authors: Joel N. Maslow, Roberta Wallace, Margaret Michaels, Holly Foskett, Elizabeth A. Maslow, Julia A. Kiehlbauch

Publication/Journal: Zoo Biology

Keywords: amphibian tuberculosis, genotyping, mycobacterium marinum, pulsed field gel electrophoresis, snake tuberculosis

2002


Feline urine spraying

Authors: Joel Dehasse

Publication/Journal: Applied Animal Behaviour Science

Keywords: clomipramine, pheromone, spraying, urinary marking

1997


Behavioral insights and endangered species conservation.

Authors: Joel Berger

Publication/Journal: Zoo Biology

Keywords: endangered species, przewalski horse

1990


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