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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.
URL: https://detroitzoo.org/resources/?ignore=title%2Cabstract%2Cpublication%2Ckeywords&fwp_search=Shiv%20Kumari%20Patel

Effects of a combined enrichment intervention on the behavioural and physiological welfare of captive Asiatic lions (Panthera leo persica)

Authors: Sitendu Goswami, Shiv Kumari Patel, Riyaz Kadivar, Praveen Chandra Tyagi, Pradeep Kumar Malik, Samrat Mondol

Publication/Journal: Applied Animal Behaviour Science

Keywords: animal welfare, behaviour diversity, captive animal management, conservation breeding initiative, faecal corticosterone, space usage, stereotypy

2021

Redefining human-animal relationships: an evaluation of methods to allow their empirical measurement in zoos

Authors: F. Patel, K. Whitehouse-Tedd, S. J. Ward

Publication/Journal: Animal Welfare

Keywords: animal welfare, behaviour, human-animal interactions, human-animal relationships, method, zoo

2019

Using Qualitative Behaviour Assessment to Investigate Human-Animal Relationships in Zoo-Housed Giraffes (Giraffa camelopardalis)

Authors: Freisha Patel, Francoise Wemelsfelder, Samantha J. Ward

Publication/Journal: Animals

Keywords: animal welfare, free choice profiling, HAR, human-animal interaction, keeper-animal interactions, qba

2019

Role of grooming in reducing tick load in wild baboons (Papio cynocephalus)

Authors: Mercy Y. Akinyi, Jenny Tung, Maamun Jeneby, Nilesh B. Patel, Jeanne Altmann, Susan C. Alberts

Publication/Journal: Animal Behaviour

Keywords: baboon, grooming, haemoparasitic infection, papio cynocephalus, tick

2013

Assessing salivary cortisol in large-scale, epidemiological research

Authors: E. K. Adam, M. Kumari

Publication/Journal: Psychoneuroendocrinology

Keywords: epidemiology, measurement, modeling, population-based, salivary cortisol

2009

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