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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.
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Diel and infradian (7-day) activity rhythms in Mexican spider monkeys (Ateles geoffroyi) kept with and without visitor contact

Authors: Jairo Muñoz-Delgado, Sergio Pérez-Galicia, José Carlos Sánchez-Ferrer, Domingo Canales Espinosa, Hans G. Erkert

Publication/Journal: American Journal of Primatology

Keywords: activity pattern, circadian rhythm, circaseptan rhythm, masking effect, zoo visitor effect

2018


“I am going to groom you”: Multiple forms of play fighting in gray mouse lemurs (Microcebus murinus)

Authors: Sergio M. Pellis, Vivien C. Pellis

Publication/Journal: Journal of Comparative Psychology

Keywords: animal aggressive behavior, animal grooming behavior, animal play, animal sexual behavior, lemurs

2018


Visitor effect on the behavior of a group of spider monkeys (Ateles geoffroyi) maintained at an island in Lake Catemaco, Veracruz/Mexico

Authors: Sergio Pérez-Galicia, Manuel Miranda-Anaya, Domingo Canales-Espinosa, Jairo Muñoz-Delgado

Publication/Journal: Zoo Biology

Keywords: actimetry, activity response, behavioral changes, captivity

2017


What is play fighting and what is it good for?

Authors: Sergio M. Pellis, Vivien C. Pellis

Publication/Journal: Learning & Behavior

Keywords: reciprocity, tactics, targets

2017


Electrocardiography in conscious releasable andean condors (Vultur gryphus): Reference panel and unusual findings

Authors: Guillermo M. Wiemeyer, Sergio A. Lambertucci, Laura Torres Bianchini, Guillermo Belerenian

Publication/Journal: Zoo Biology

Keywords: avian cardiology, condor, ecg, electrocardiogram, scavenger

2013


How domestication modulates play behavior: A comparative analysis between wild rats and a laboratory strain of Rattus norvegicus

Authors: Brett T. Himmler, Rafal Stryjek, Klaudia Modlinska, Stephanie M. Derksen, Wojciech Pisula, Sergio M. Pellis

Publication/Journal: Journal of Comparative Psychology

Keywords: animal domestication, animal play, animal strain differences, rats

2013


Circadian rhythms in metabolic variables in Caenorhabditis elegans

Authors: María Laura Migliori, Sergio H. Simonetta, Andrés Romanowski, Diego A. Golombek

Publication/Journal: Physiology & Behavior

Keywords: caenorhabditis elegans, circadian rhythm, metabolic variables

2011


To Whom the Play Signal Is Directed: A Study of Headshaking in Black-Handed Spider Monkeys (Ateles geoffroyi)

Authors: Sergio M. Pellis, Vivien C. Pellis

Publication/Journal: Journal of Comparative Psychology

Keywords: communication, play signals, social play, solitary play

2011


Comparison of salivary cortisol concentrations in Jaguars kept in captivity with diff exposures to public

Authors: Julio Cesar Montanha, Sergio Leme Silva, Veanner Boere

Publication/Journal: Ciencia Rural

Keywords: jaguar, salivary cortisol, welfare

2009


Paradoxical sleep deprivation activates hypothalamic nuclei that regulate food intake and stress response

Authors: Milene de Oliveira Lara Galvão, Rita Sinigaglia-Coimbra, Suzi Emiko Kawakami, Sergio Tufik, Deborah Suchecki

Publication/Journal: Psychoneuroendocrinology

Keywords: food intake, hpa axis, hypothalamus, orexin, paradoxical sleep deprivation, stress

2009


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