Professional Involvement
AZA Committees
•
Anseriformes Taxon Advisory Group
(Dave Quavillon, steering committee
member)
• B
ehavior Scientific Advisory Group
(Ellen Dreyer, steering committee
member)
•
Chilean Flamingo
Species Survival Plan
(Dave Quavillon, program leader
and studbook keeper)
•
Gruiformes Taxon Advisory Group
(Michelle Smurl, steering committee
member)
•
Nominating Committee
(Michelle Smurl, committee member)
•
Pangolin, Aardvark and Xenarthra
Taxon Advisory Group
(Dave Quavillon, steering committee
member)
•
Parrot Taxon Advisory Group
(Michelle Smurl, steering committee
member)
•
Tapir Taxon Advisory Group
(Dave Quavillon, steering committee
member)
•
White-Nosed Coati
Species Survival Plan
(Lauren Hinson, program leader
and studbook keeper)
Presentations
•
Florida Scrub-Jay Conservation—
March 2018
(Michelle Smurl, AZA Mid-Year Meeting,
Jacksonville, FL)
•
Voluntary Blood Pressure Training
of 1.1 Siamangs—February 2018
(Kim Castrucci, South Florida Primate
Group Meeting, Melbourne, FL)
•
Shaping a Behavioral Husbandry
Program Through Keeper
Collaboration—September 2017
(Ellen Dreyer, AZA Annual Conference,
Indianapolis, IN)
•
Advancing Animal Welfare
Through Behavioral Husbandry
Management Programs (panel)—
September 2017
(Ellen Dreyer, AZA Annual Conference,
Indianapolis, IN)
•
Positive Reinforcement Increases
Positive Behavior in Red-Tailed
Hawk—April 2017
(Ellen Dreyer, Animal Behavior
Management Alliance Conference,
Cincinnati, OH)
•
Working with a Worried Wallaby:
Training Strategies for Fearful
Animals—April 2016
(Ellen Dreyer, Animal Management
Behavior Alliance Conference,
Tampa, FL)
•
Training Dominant Expressive
Behaviors in a Social Group of
Variable Flying Foxes and African
Straw-Colored Fruit Bats—
September 2015
(Ellen Dreyer, American Association of
Zookeepers Conference, St. Louis, MO)
Publications
• P
opulation Analysis & Breeding
and Transfer Plan—Chilean
Flamingo AZA Species Survival Plan
Green Program—August 2017
(Dave Quavillon, aza.org)
•
Working with a Worried Wallaby:
Training Strategies for Fearful
Animals—June 2017
(Ellen Dreyer, Animal Keeper’s Forum)
•
North American Regional Chilean
Flamingo Studbook—February 2017
(Dave Quavillon, aza.org)
•
Chilean Flamingo Sustainability
Report—September 2016
(Dave Quavillon, aza.org)
•
Not Every Trainer is a Keeper;
But Every Keeper is a Trainer—
September 2015
(Ellen Dreyer, Animal Keeper’s Forum)
Posters
•
Managing Hyperkeratosis in a
Red-Tailed Hawk—February 2018
(Rachel Smith, South Florida Primate
Group Meeting, Melbourne, FL)
•
Voluntary Blood Pressure Training
of 1.1 Siamangs—February 2018
(Kim Castrucci, South Florida Primate
Group Meeting, Melbourne, FL)
•
Stereotypic Behavior Study
in 0.1 Jaguar—September 2017
(Ellen Dreyer, Michelle Smurl and
Darby Proctor; AZA Annual Conference,
Indianapolis, IN)
•
Migration to the New Exhibit—
February 2017
(Michelle Ferguson, International
Association of Avian Trainers and
Educators Conference, Atlanta, GA)
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