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</span><span style="font-size: 12pt;">this</span><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><a href="https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2020/05/primatologists-work-keep-great-apes-safe-coronavirus?utm_campaign=news_daily_2020-05-04&et_rid=445826332&et_cid=3313998" title="https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2020/05/primatologists-work-keep-great-apes-safe-coronavirus?utm_campaign=news_daily_2020-05-04&et_rid=445826332&et_cid=3313998"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Science
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<span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif">I'm delighted to let you know that Kristine Gandia has agreed to lead the BERG presentation on Wednesday 13th May, at 5.30pm. A Zoom link will follow. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">Her topic is </span><span style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">"</span><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><b style="color: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit;">Using
a worldwide zoo database to assess the effect of circadian synchrony on animal welfare</b></span><span style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">"</span></div>
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</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(87, 6, 6);"><b>Sabrina Brando</b></span><span style="font-size:12pt">, PhD student and Director
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<font color="#1f497d"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">See: </span><span style="font-size:13.3333px"><a href="https://animalconcepts.eu/PAWS/" id="LPlnk135395"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">https://animalconcepts.eu/PAWS/</span></a><br>
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><strong style="margin: 0px; outline: 0px; background: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bolder; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">What is ‘PAWS’?</strong></span><strong style="margin:0px; outline:0px; font-size:17px; background:rgb(255,255,255); font-weight:bolder; color:rgb(0,0,0)"><br>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;"></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 12pt; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); display: inline !important;">Practical Animal Welfare Science (PAWS) is a multilingual online platform by AnimalConcepts aligned with
our responsibility to provide animals in human care with environments that promote optimal welfare. This platform will provide animal care and welfare related information on a wide variety of topics through resources and information, such as blogs, vlogs,
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;"></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 12pt; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); display: inline !important;">The PAWS platform will provide you access to quality content, which enables you to attain many skills
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;"></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 12pt; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); display: inline !important;">AnimalConcepts’s vision for PAWS is optimal wellbeing for animals in human care globally through science
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;"></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 12pt; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); display: inline !important;">Our mission is to promote optimal animal wellbeing globally by providing quality multilingual content.
We aim to unite animal care and welfare professionals, corporations, and academic organisations in their goals to facilitate, support, and pursue evidence-based programs with compassion and integrity.</span><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0); font-size:17px; background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">
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<span style="color: rgb(31, 73, 125); font-size: 12pt;">Hannah M. Buchanan-Smith </span>
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