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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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Automated Video-Based Analysis Framework for Behavior Monitoring of Individual Animals in Zoos Using Deep Learning—A Study on Polar Bears

Authors: Matthias Zuerl, Philip Stoll, Ingrid Brehm, René Raab, Dario Zanca, Samira Kabri, Johanna Happold, Heiko Nille, Katharina Prechtel, Sophie Wuensch

Publication/Journal: Animals

Keywords: animal behavior, animal monitoring, animal welfare, behavior observation, deep learning, object detection, ursus maritimus

2022

Measurement of Fecal Testosterone Metabolites in Mice: Replacement of Invasive Techniques

Authors: Kerstin E. Auer, Marius Kußmaul, Erich Möstl, Katharina Hohlbaum, Thomas Rülicke, Rupert Palme

Publication/Journal: Animals

Keywords: androgens, feces, mice, non-invasive, testosterone

2020

Adolescent oxytocin response to stress and its behavioral and endocrine correlates

Authors: Anka Bernhard, Cindy van der Merwe, Katharina Ackermann, Anne Martinelli, Inga D. Neumann, Christine M. Freitag

Publication/Journal: Hormones and Behavior

Keywords: adolescents, Control-TSST, salivary cortisol, salivary oxytocin, TSST

2018

Behavioural response of dairy cows with and without calf-contact to hair of own and alien calves presented in the milking parlour

Authors: Katharina A. Zipp, Kerstin Barth, Ute Knierim

Publication/Journal: Applied Animal Behaviour Science

Keywords: calf rearing, cattle, maternal discrimination, olfaction, young recognition

2016

Is rearing calves with the dam a feasible option for dairy farms?—Current and future research

Authors: Julie Føske Johnsen, Katharina A. Zipp, Tasja Kälber, Anne Marie de Passillé, Ute Knierim, Kerstin Barth, Cecilie Marie Mejdell

Publication/Journal: Applied Animal Behaviour Science

Keywords: alternative calf rearing, dairy calves, suckling, welfare

2016

Relationship between behavioural tests and agonistic interactions at different age levels in pigs

Authors: K. Scheffler, E. Stamer, I. Traulsen, J. Krieter

Publication/Journal: Applied Animal Behaviour Science

Keywords: aggression, backtest, behaviour, human approach test, pig

2016

Digestive physiology of the plains viscacha (Lagostomus maximus): A large herbivorous hystricomorph rodent

Authors: Katharina B. Hagen, Dorothea Besselmann, Ulrike Cyrus-Eulenberger, Catharina Vendl, Sylvia Ortmann, Robert Zingg, Ellen Kienzle, Michael Kreuzer, Jean-Michel Hatt, Marcus Clauss

Publication/Journal: Zoo Biology

Keywords: colonic separation mechanism, coprophagy, herbivory, nutrition, obesity

2015

Network characteristics and development of social structure of agonistic behaviour in pigs across three repeated rehousing and mixing events

Authors: Kathrin Büttner, Katharina Scheffler, Irena Czycholl, Joachim Krieter

Publication/Journal: Applied Animal Behaviour Science

Keywords: agonistic behaviour, group level, pigs, social network analysis

2015

Genetic analysis of the individual pig behaviour in backtests and human approach tests

Authors: K. Scheffler, E. Stamer, I. Traulsen, J. Krieter

Publication/Journal: Applied Animal Behaviour Science

Keywords: backtest, behaviour, heritability, human approach test, pig

2014

Chemical signals of age, sex and identity in black rhinoceros

Authors: Wayne L. Linklater, Katharina Mayer, Ronald R. Swaisgood

Publication/Journal: Animal Behaviour

Keywords: black rhinoceros, diceros bicornis var. minor, dung, faeces, hook-lipped rhinoceros, individual discrimination, olfactory communication, signal, urine

2013

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