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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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Age‐based variation in calf independence, social behavior and play in a captive population of African elephant calves

Authors: Patrick T Freeman, Erica L Anderson, Kristin B Allen, Caitlin E O'Connell‐Rodwell

Publication/Journal: Zoo Biology

Keywords: african elephant, age, behavioral development, cross-sectional, early social behavior, play

2021


Age‐based variation in calf independence, social behavior and play in a captive population of African elephant calves

Authors: Patrick T Freeman, Erica L Anderson, Kristin B Allen, Caitlin E O'Connell‐Rodwell

Publication/Journal: Zoo Biology

Keywords: animal welfare, enrichment, interaction, ontogeny, sociality

2021


Integrated Collection Assessment and Planning (ICAP) workshop: Helping zoos move toward the One Plan Approach

Authors: Kathy Traylor-Holzer, Kristin Leus, Karen Bauman

Publication/Journal: Zoo Biology

Keywords: ex situ conservation, integrated conservation, regional collection planning

2019


A comparison of fecal steroid metabolite concentrations between harem and bachelor stallions in a free-Ranging population of przewalski’s horses (Equus ferus przewalskii)

Authors: Maureen D'Souza-Anjo, Bruce W. Christensen, Kristin Brabender, Waltraut Zimmermann, Philip H. Kass, Franz Schwarzenberger

Publication/Journal: Zoo Biology

Keywords: epi-andosterone, estrogen, sociosexual hierarchy, testosterone

2017


Food preparation behaviour of babirusa (Babyrousa celebensis)

Authors: Masaaki Ito, Alastair Macdonald, Kristin Leus, Dewa Gede Agung Atmaja, Wayan Balik

Publication/Journal: Journal of Zoo and Aquarium Research

Keywords: babirusa, food preparation behaviour, food washing behaviour

2017


Effects of crowd size on exhibit use by and behavior of chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes) and Western lowland gorillas (Gorilla gorilla) at a zoo

Authors: Kristin E. Bonnie, Mabel Y. L. Ang, Stephen R. Ross

Publication/Journal: Applied Animal Behaviour Science

Keywords: exhibit design, visitor effects, welfare

2016


Evaluation of thermal regimes for transported ambassador ectotherms: One size does not fit all

Authors: Sasha J. Tetzlaff, Kristin E. Tetzlaff, Richard J. Connors

Publication/Journal: Zoo Biology

Keywords: education, husbandry, outreach, temperature preference, welfare

2016


Initial founders of captive populations are genetically representative of natural populations in critically endangered dusky gopher frogs, Lithobates sevosus

Authors: Kristin M. Hinkson, Natochia L. Henry, Nina M. Hensley, Stephen C. Richter

Publication/Journal: Zoo Biology

Keywords: captive population management, ex situ, genetic variation, relatedness

2016


A retrospective analysis of mortality in captive pygmy hippopotamus (Choeropsis liberiensis) from 1912 to 2014

Authors: Gabriella L. Flacke, Suzana Tkalčić, Beatrice Steck, Kristin Warren, Graeme B. Martin

Publication/Journal: Zoo Biology

Keywords: encephalomyocarditis virus (emcv), leptospirosis, obesity, pathology, polycystic kidney disease (pkd), stillbirth

2016


Wild bearded capuchin monkeys (Cebus libidinosus) place nuts in anvils selectively

Authors: Qing Liu, Dorothy Fragaszy, Barth Wright, Kristin Wright, Patricia Izar, Elisabetta Visalberghi

Publication/Journal: Animal Behaviour

Keywords: *tool use, affordance, anvil use, capuchin, cebus libidinosus, embodied cognition, nut cracking, perception-action, selectivity, social influence

2011


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