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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=T.%20B.%20Henry

Increasing foraging times with appetitive and consummatory foraging enrichment in grey parrots (Psittacus erithacus)

Authors: M. H. C. Beekmans, C. M. Vinke, A. Maijer, I. de Haan, N. J. Schoemaker, T. B. Rodenburg, H. S. Kooistra, Y. R. A. van Zeeland

Publication/Journal: Applied Animal Behaviour Science

Keywords: animal welfare, appetitive behaviour, Consummatory behaviour, enrichment, foraging, psittaciformes

2023

Training a Giraffe (Giraffa camelopardalis reticulata) for Voluntary Foot Radiographs at Dubai Safari Park

Authors: Demi Booth, Amos Kamau, Henry Kayondo, Anna Mae Sumaya, Muhammad Waseem Ashraf

Publication/Journal: Journal of Zoological and Botanical Gardens

Keywords: foot radiographs, giraffe, lameness, operant training, welfare

2022

Aggregating animal welfare indicators: can it be done in a transparent and ethically robust way?

Authors: P. Sandøe, S. A. Corr, T. B. Lund, B. Forkman

Publication/Journal: Animal Welfare

Keywords: aggregation, animal welfare, ethics, expert opinion, farm animals, welfare quality®

2019

Stall architecture influences horses’ behaviour and the prevalence and type of stereotypies

Authors: Clémence Lesimple, Emmanuel Gautier, Haïfa Benhajali, Céline Rochais, Christophe Lunel, Samia Bensaïd, Adala Khalloufi, Séverine Henry, Martine Hausberger

Publication/Journal: Applied Animal Behaviour Science

Keywords: horse, housing, stereotypic/abnormal repetitive behaviours, time-budget, welfare

2019

“Hay-bags” and “Slow feeders”: Testing their impact on horse behaviour and welfare

Authors: C. Rochais, S. Henry, M. Hausberger

Publication/Journal: Applied Animal Behaviour Science

Keywords: feeding behaviour, hay-bags, horses, human-horse relationship, slow feeders, welfare

2018

The burden of domestication: a representative study of welfare in privately owned cats in Denmark

Authors: P. Sandøe, A. P. Nørspang, B. Forkman, C. R. Bjørnvad, S. V. Kondrup, T. B. Lund

Publication/Journal: Animal Welfare

Keywords: animal welfare, behavioural problems, confinement, health issues, neuter status, purebred cats

2017

Do horses with poor welfare show ‘pessimistic’ cognitive biases?

Authors: S. Henry, C. Fureix, R. Rowberry, M. Bateson, M. Hausberger

Publication/Journal: Science of Nature

Keywords: affective state, animal welfare, back-pain, behavioral-disorders, cognitive judgement biases, enrichment, environmental, equus-caballus, horses, judgment bias, laboratory rats, management factors, multidisciplinary sciences, rattus-norvegicus, starlings sturnus-vulgaris

2017

Equine Welfare Assessment: Exploration of British Stakeholder Attitudes Using Focus-Group Discussions

Authors: Susan V. Horseman, Jo Hockenhull, Henry Buller, Siobhan Mullan, Alistair R. S. Barr, Helen R. Whay

Publication/Journal: Journal of Applied Animal Welfare Science

Keywords: attitudes, focus group, horse, stakeholder, welfare assessment

2017

Equine Welfare in England and Wales: Exploration of Stakeholders’ Understanding

Authors: Susan V. Horseman, Henry Buller, Siobhan Mullan, Toby G. Knowles, Alistair R. S. Barr, Helen R. Whay

Publication/Journal: Journal of Applied Animal Welfare Science

Keywords: defining welfare, equine stakeholder, horse, interview, qualitative

2017

Initial founders of captive populations are genetically representative of natural populations in critically endangered dusky gopher frogs, Lithobates sevosus

Authors: Kristin M. Hinkson, Natochia L. Henry, Nina M. Hensley, Stephen C. Richter

Publication/Journal: Zoo Biology

Keywords: captive population management, ex situ, genetic variation, relatedness

2016

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