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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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Investigating the behaviour and enclosure use of zoo-housed Cuvier’s dwarf caiman Paleosuchus palpebrosus

Authors: Kevin Leigh Gray, James Edward Brereton

Publication/Journal: Herpetological Bulletin

Keywords: animal welfare, caiman, enclosure use

2022

Assessing North Atlantic Right Whale (Eubalaena glacialis) Welfare

Authors: Katherine King, Melissa Joblon, Kerry McNally, Leigh Clayton, Heather Pettis, Peter Corkeron, Felicia Nutter

Publication/Journal: Journal of Zoological and Botanical Gardens

Keywords: animal welfare, animal welfare assessment, conservation, North Atlantic right whale

2021

Fish Behavior: Training and Enrichment

Authors: Ilana R Alderman, Leigh A Clayton

Publication/Journal: Clinical Guide to Fish Medicine

Keywords: enrichment, fish, training

2021

Making a Tiger’s Day: Free-Operant Assessment and Environmental Enrichment to Improve the Daily Lives of Captive Bengal Tigers (Panthera tigris tigris)

Authors: Michael Clayton, Trista Shrock

Publication/Journal: Behavior Analysis in Practice

Keywords: environmental enrichment, free operant, preference assessment, tigers

2020

Use of Qualitative Behaviour Assessment as an indicator of welfare in donkeys

Authors: Michela Minero, Emanuela Dalla Costa, Francesca Dai, Leigh Anne Margaret Murray, Elisabetta Canali, Francoise Wemelsfelder

Publication/Journal: Applied Animal Behaviour Science

Keywords: donkeys, qualitative behaviour assessment, welfare assessment

2016

Global climate change attitudes and perceptions among south American zoo visitors

Authors: Jerry F. Luebke, Susan Clayton, Lisa-Anne DeGregoria Kelly, Alejandro Grajal

Publication/Journal: Zoo Biology

Keywords: connection to nature, culture, informal learning

2015

A study on validity and reliability of on-farm tests to measure human–animal relationship in horses and donkeys

Authors: Emanuela Dalla Costa, Francesca Dai, Leigh Anne Margaret Murray, Stefano Guazzetti, Elisabetta Canali, Michela Minero

Publication/Journal: Applied Animal Behaviour Science

Keywords: donkeys, horses, human-animal relationship, on-farm welfare assessment

2015

Dominance, pair bonds and boldness determine social-foraging tactics in rooks, Corvus frugilegus

Authors: Jolle W. Jolles, Ljerka Ostojić, Nicola S. Clayton

Publication/Journal: Animal Behaviour

Keywords: boldness, corvus frugilegus, dominance, heterogeneity, individual differences, pair bond, personality, producer–scrounger, rook, social foraging

2013

Pair-bonding and companion recognition in domestic donkeys, Equus asinus

Authors: Leigh M. A. Murray, Katharine Byrne, Richard B. D’Eath

Publication/Journal: Applied Animal Behaviour Science

Keywords: companion recognition, donkeys, pair-bonding, welfare, y-maze

2013

Eurasian jays, Garrulus glandarius, flexibly switch caching and pilfering tactics in response to social context

Authors: Rachael C. Shaw, Nicola S. Clayton

Publication/Journal: Animal Behaviour

Keywords: behavioural flexibility, cache protection, corvid, eurasian jay, garrulus glandarius, pilfering, social cognition

2012

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