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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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Farm Animal Cognition—Linking Behavior, Welfare and Ethics

Authors: Christian Nawroth, Jan Langbein, Marjorie Coulon, Vivian Gabor, Susann Oesterwind, Judith Benz-Schwarzburg, Eberhard von Borell

Publication/Journal: Frontiers in Veterinary Science

Keywords: animal behaviour, animal welfare, cattle, enrichment, goats, horses, human-animal interactions, pigs, sheep

2019

Positive perception of human stroking by lambs: Qualitative behaviour assessment confirms previous interpretation of quantitative data

Authors: Maria Serrapica, Xavier Boivin, Marjorie Coulon, Ada Braghieri, Fabio Napolitano

Publication/Journal: Applied Animal Behaviour Science

Keywords: human-animal relationship, lamb, qualitative behaviour assessment, stroking

2017

Exploration as a key component of natal dispersal: dispersers explore more than philopatric individuals in roe deer

Authors: L. Debeffe, N. Morellet, B. Cargnelutti, B. Lourtet, A. Coulon, J. M. Gaillard, R. Bon, A. J. M. Hewison

Publication/Journal: Animal Behaviour

Keywords: capreolus capreolus, gps, home range, juvenile, movement, roe deer, ungulate

2013

Sharing mates and nest boxes is associated with female “friendship” in European starlings, Sturnus vulgaris

Authors: Laurence Henry, Cécile Bourguet, Marion Coulon, Christine Aubry, Martine Hausberger

Publication/Journal: Journal of Comparative Psychology

Keywords: mate choice, polygyny, social bonding, song sharing, starlings

2013

Gentle vs. aversive handling of pregnant ewes: II. Physiology and behavior of the lambs

Authors: M. Coulon, S. Hild, A. Schroeer, A. M. Janczak, A. J. Zanella

Publication/Journal: Physiology & Behavior

Keywords: cognition, fearfulness, handling, heart rate variability, lambs, prenatal stress, sheep, welfare

2011

Visual Discrimination by Heifers (Bos taurus) of Their Own Species

Authors: Marjorie Coulon, Bertrand L. Deputte, Yvan Heyman, Laurent Delatouche, Christophe Richard, Claude Baudoin

Publication/Journal: Journal of Comparative Psychology

Keywords: cattle prim'holstein, instrumental conditioning, s+/s– paradigm, species discrimination, visual stimuli

2007

Use of visual, acoustic, and olfactory information during embedded invertebrate foraging in brown capuchins (Cebus apella)

Authors: Kimberley A. Phillips, Lisa M. Shauver Goodchild, Meghan E. Haas, Marjorie J. Ulyan, Stephanie Petro

Publication/Journal: Journal of Comparative Psychology

Keywords: acoustic cues, capuchins, foraging, olfactory cues, visual cues

2004

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