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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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Evaluation of a dustbathing substrate and straw bales as environmental enrichments in commercial broiler housing

Authors: Mary Baxter, Carley L. Bailie, Niamh E. O’Connell

Publication/Journal: Applied Animal Behaviour Science

Keywords: broiler chicken, dustbathing, environmental enrichment, leg health, welfare

2018

A comparison of inferential analysis methods for multilevel studies: Implications for drawing conclusions in animal welfare science

Authors: Kara N. Stevens, Lucy Asher, Kym Griffin, Mary Friel, Niamh O'Connell, Lisa M. Collins

Publication/Journal: Applied Animal Behaviour Science

Keywords: animal health, animal welfare, mixed effect models, pig, sample size, study design

2017

Docking the value of pigmeat? Prevalence and financial implications of welfare lesions in Irish slaughter pigs

Authors: S. Harley, L. A. Boyle, N. E. O'Connell, S. J. More, D. L. Teixeira, A. Hanlon

Publication/Journal: Animal Welfare

Keywords: animal welfare, carcase, economics, meat inspection, pig, tail-biting

2014

Behavioural and physiological responses of heifer calves to acute stressors: Long-term consistency and relationship with adult reactivity to milking

Authors: Cornelis G. Van Reenen, Jozef T. N. Van der Werf, Niamh E. O’Connell, Leonie F. M. Heutinck, Hans A. M. Spoolder, R. Bryan Jones, Jaap M. Koolhaas, Harry J. Blokhuis

Publication/Journal: Applied Animal Behaviour Science

Keywords: behavioural test, dairy cattle, development, fearfulness, hpa axis, individual differences, temperament

2013

Does housing nulliparous dairy cows with multiparous animals prior to calving influence welfare- and production-related parameters after calving?

Authors: Alastair R. Boyle, Conrad P. Ferris, Niamh E. O’Connell

Publication/Journal: Applied Animal Behaviour Science

Keywords: behaviour, cortisol, heifers, lying, pre-calving, regrouping

2013

Sex differences and similarities in the neuroendocrine regulation of social behavior in an African cichlid fish

Authors: Lauren A. O'Connell, Julia H. Ding, Hans A. Hofmann

Publication/Journal: Hormones and Behavior

Keywords: aggression, androgen, androgen receptor, estrogen, estrogen receptor, progesterone, progesterone receptor, reproduction, social behavior

2013

The influence of access to aerial perches on fearfulness, social behaviour and production parameters in free-range laying hens

Authors: Caroline Julie Donaldson, Niamh Elizabeth O’Connell

Publication/Journal: Applied Animal Behaviour Science

Keywords: aggression, fear, feather pecking, laying hen, perches, welfare

2012

The effect of increasing dietary fibre and the provision of straw racks on the welfare of sows housed in small static groups

Authors: C. L. Stewart, L. A. Boyle, N. E. O'Connell

Publication/Journal: Animal Welfare

Keywords: animal welfare, behaviour, fibre, sows, static groups, straw rack

2011

The effect of feeding a high fibre diet on the welfare of sows housed in large dynamic groups

Authors: C.L. Stewart, L.A. Boyle, M.E.E. McCann, N.E. O'Connell

Publication/Journal: Animal Welfare

Keywords: animal welfare, behavior, behaviour, dynamic group, high fiber diets, physiological measures, sows

2010

Keeping an “Ear” to the Ground: Seismic Communication in Elephants

Authors: C. E. O'Connell-Rodwell

Publication/Journal: Physiology

Keywords: elephant, fitness, seismic signals, survival, vibration sense

2007

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