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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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The Animal Welfare Consequences and Moral Implications of Lethal and Non-Lethal Fox Control Methods

Authors: Nathalie de Ridder, Andrew Knight

Publication/Journal:

Keywords: control method, death, livestock, Peter Singer, suffering, Tom Regan, vulpes vulpes

2024

Effects of environmental enrichment on decision-making behavior in pigs

Authors: F. Josef van der Staay, Johanna A. van Zutphen, Mirjam M. de Ridder, Rebecca E. Nordquist

Publication/Journal: Applied Animal Behaviour Science

Keywords: animal welfare, barren environment, decision-making, enriched environment, hair cortisol, salivary cortisol, stress

2017

Group composition for fattening entire male pigs under enriched housing conditions—Influences on behaviour, injuries and boar taint compounds

Authors: Mirjam Holinger, Barbara Früh, Edna Hillmann

Publication/Journal: Applied Animal Behaviour Science

Keywords: agonistic behaviour, androstenone, mounting, organic, skin injuries

2015

Mother–offspring recognition in the bat Carollia perspicillata

Authors: Mirjam Knörnschild, Marion Feifel, Elisabeth K. V. Kalko

Publication/Journal: Animal Behaviour

Keywords: carollia perspicillata, male courtship, maternal care, maternal experience, playback experiment, seba's short-tailed fruit bat

2013

Learned vocal group signatures in the polygynous bat Saccopteryx bilineata

Authors: Mirjam Knörnschild, Martina Nagy, Markus Metz, Frieder Mayer, Otto von Helversen

Publication/Journal: Animal Behaviour

Keywords: call convergence, greater sac-winged bat, horizontal learning, peer influence, saccopteryx bilineata, vocal learning

2012

Gender differences, responsiveness and memory of a potentially painful event in hermit crabs

Authors: Mirjam Appel, Robert W. Elwood

Publication/Journal: Animal Behaviour

Keywords: avoidance, crustacean, hermit crab, memory, nociception, pagurus bernhardus, pain

2009

Pain experience in hermit crabs?

Authors: Robert W. Elwood, Mirjam Appel

Publication/Journal: Animal Behaviour

Keywords: hermit crab, memory, motivation, nociception, pagurus bernhardus, pain, trade-off

2009

Castration does not decrease nonreproductive aggression in yearling male European starlings (Sturnus vulgaris)

Authors: Rianne Pinxten, Elke De Ridder, Maarten De Cock, Marcel Eens

Publication/Journal: Hormones and Behavior

Keywords: castration, nonreproductive aggression, sturnus vulgaris, testosterone

2003

Female presence affects male behavior and testosterone levels in the European starling (Sturnus vulgaris)

Authors: Rianne Pinxten, Elke de Ridder, Marcel Eens

Publication/Journal: Hormones and Behavior

Keywords: challenge hypothesis, female presence, mate attraction behavior, sexual selection, sturnus vulgaris, testosterone

2003

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