Course curriculum

    1. Behavioral Diversity In Dogs and Across Species

    2. Reading 1 - Behavioral diversity as a potential indicator of positive animal welfare

    3. The 3 Steps of Total Welfare and the Five Domains of Animal Welfare - poster graphics

    4. A sample behavioral diversity and welfare promotion workflow

    5. Quiz 1

    1. The Total Welfare Ethogram - Behavioral Criteria for Inclusion

    2. Reading 2 - Beyond a pet - contextualizing natural behaviors and welfare challenges for domestic dogs

    3. Sample Welfare Ethogram - Leopard

    4. The Total Welfare Ethogram- spreadsheet

    5. Canine Welfare Behavioral Diversity Practice Sheets - The Total Welfare Ethogram

    6. Maintenance behaviors - tracking for context beyond behavioral diversity

    7. Quiz 2

    1. Tracking Scent-Air

    2. Tracking/Locating Scent-Ground/Surface/Object

    3. Licking-Surface/Object/Scent

    4. Scratching At or Pawing

    5. Testing

    6. Digging

    7. Rooting

    8. Exploring

    9. Obstacle Navigation

    10. Pouncing

    11. Orienting

    12. Stalking

    13. Chasing

    14. Grabbing-Biting

    15. Shaking-Biting

    16. Squeezing-Biting

    17. Holding-Biting

    18. Carrying-Biting

    19. Parading-Biting

    20. Tugging-Biting

    21. Dissecting-Biting

    22. Object Manipulation

    23. Possessing

    24. Chewing or Gnawing

    25. Caching

    26. Watering

    27. Licking-Social

    28. Leaning/Pressing Into Contact

    29. Mutual Gaze

    30. Exposed Belly Contact

    31. Vocalization-Alerting

    32. Vocalization-Solicitation

    33. Rolling Around/Rubbing Against

    34. Marking-Urination or Defecation

    35. Scent Rolling

    36. Marking-Kicking Ground

    37. Social Grooming or Allogrooming

    38. Social Contact Resting or Sleeping

    39. Social Greeting-Dogs

    40. Social Greeting-Humans

    41. Play Bow or Stretch-Solicitation

    42. Play-Rollover Solicitation

    43. Play-Restrained Biting/Wrestling

    44. Play-Mouth Sparring

    45. Play-Ambushing

    46. Pawing-Social

    47. Mounting or Humping

    48. Perching/Monitoring

    49. Splitting or Mediating

    50. Investigating

    51. Nesting/Bedding Down

    52. Regenerating or Just Being Outdoors

    1. Total Welfare - L.E.G.S., the Five Domains, and Behavioral Diversity Tracking - A Healthy Cycle

    2. Reading - Sixty Years of Tinbergen’s Four Questions and Their Continued Relevance to Applied Behaviour and Welfare Research in Zoo Animals: A Commentary

    3. Features of effective enrichment provisions to promote behavioral diversity

    4. Quiz 3

    1. The Total Welfare App is LIVE!

    2. Behavioral Diversity Welfare Analyst - future live course cohorts for expert designation

    3. Delivering Total Welfare as Dog Professionals - Next Steps with L.E.G.S.

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