Welfare Assessment Tools in Zoos

NEI TEC Talk - Week 12 - Resilience and Welfare Assessment Week

Sharon Joseph is a professional zoo and animal welfare ... Sharon's focus is developing practical tools based on science and research to improve animal welfare.

Captive animal welfare

Implementing a basic welfare monitoring tool for use by zoo animal staff. Although studying animal emotions provides us with much insight into welfare ...

Scientific Papers: Animal Welfare - The Zoo Scientist

A new paper in JZBG discussed how to identify those needs and use them to set up a foundation for welfare assessments.

Data_Sheet_1_Animal Welfare Assessment in 16 Zoos in South ...

This study aimed to develop a simple, objective, and reliable welfare assessment tool, the modified Animal Welfare Assessment Grid (AWAG), that ...

Development of a novel primate welfare assessment tool for ...

A multi-facility, collaborative project aimed to develop and implement a novel primate welfare assessment tool (PWAT) for use with research macaques.

The Use of a Species-Specific Health and Welfare Assessment Tool ...

This E. dofleini health and welfare assessment tool includes categories assessing E. dofleini external appearance, behavior, and clinical signs of stress and ...

New welfare tool to help improve the lives of elephants in human care

The new elephant behavioural welfare assessment tool, the result of research which has been published in the scientific journal PLOS ONE, allows keepers to ...

Ackonc-AWA: A multi-species animal welfare assessment protocol ...

Further applications of the described welfare assessment tool in other species and different institutional contexts will reinforce the validation of the ...

Assessment of Welfare in Zoo Animals: Towards Optimum Quality of ...

... tool for continual welfare assessment, using technology where ... Assessment of Welfare in Zoo Animals: Towards Optimum Quality of Life.

The Five Domains - Zoo and Aquarium Association

It provides a best-practice framework to assess welfare in animals of all species and is used by all ZAA-accredited zoos and aquariums to assess animal welfare.

Animal welfare assessment contest: Cheetahs in captivity

Animal welfare assessment contest: Cheetahs in captivity · Factors that go into a thorough welfare assessment · How to assess animal welfare using science-based ...

Ackonc-AWA : A multi-species animal welfare assessment protocol ...

Further applications of the described welfare assessment tool in other species and different institutional contexts will reinforce the validation of the ...

Evaluation and improvement of a species-general animal welfare ...

Doing better for understudied species: Evaluation and improvement of a species-general animal welfare assessment tool for zoos.

A Systematic Review of the Use of Technology to Monitor Welfare in ...

However, to comply with the need of a more efficient welfare assessment, a further implementation of technology as an additional tool in zoo ...

New directions for zoo animal welfare science. - APA PsycNet

In recent years, zoos and aquaria have intensified efforts to develop approaches and tools for assessing the welfare of populations and individual animals ...

Conducting Welfare Assessments

The first two milestones (1. Goal and Scope Definition, 2. Mapping of Processes) can be used by researchers using any welfare assessment method, ...

Developing a Reliable Welfare Assessment Tool for Captive ...

Simple Summary: There are few welfare assessments that have been designed for captive zoo- housed species, including bears.

Animal Welfare Assessments - YouTube

Co-hosted by the Center for Zoo Animal Welfare and the World Association of Zoos and Aquariums at the Detroit Zoo in 2017. https://czaw.org ...

Animal Welfare: A Central Tenet of the Association of Zoos and ...

... welfare assessment tools to continually improve the welfare of animals in their care; identify and encourage the development of animal welfare ...

The C-Well Assessment - Animal Welfare Expertise

The C-Well© Assessment is a comprehensive set of 36 welfare measures for bottlenose dolphins in captivity ... tools to evaluate the welfare of captive bottlenose ...