Zoos and Aquariums
Sustainability Trends for Museums, Zoos, and Aquariums: A Website Evaluation
... museums, zoos, and aquariums find sustainability important because 93% of organization websites studied gave at least one example of its sustainability ...
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Otter spotter: The Creation and evaluation of an educational resource for the association of zoos and aquariums, Rochester Institute of Technology, and the Seneca Park Zoo
... A third challenge I faced was support from the associated institution. Otters are not currently a focus for the SPZ Public Relations and Education Departments. Therefore, it was difficult to convince certain parties that ...
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Value of Guest Interaction in Touch Pools at Public Aquariums
... contend zoos and aquariums must use unique and innovative approaches to connect the average zoo visitor to the animal collection and conservation to increase awareness of global environmental ...eye, ...
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... with zoos and aquariums to develop professional standards, specifically relating to evaluation ...within zoos is to improve the value of their offerings, then clear guidelines need to be established ...
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Education at zoos: The use of education at zoos moderated by visiting motivations
... the zoos a unique position to educate the public, this might also be a large ...at zoos ‘very important’, while just 4% of respondents visited a zoo with the intention to learn more about animals and 5% to ...
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Cases of animal escapes from zoos (Subject of area: Zoo animals)
... of Zoos and Aquariums (WAZA), as of 2015 there are more than 1300 zoos in the world, as well as numerous mini-zoos and hundreds of private collections (World Association of Zoos and ...
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... American zoos to collectively manage certain captive animals, the zooveillance model has become the gold standard for zoos worldwide, setting the stage for parallel projects of animal management by ...
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... between zoos in terms of the number of reptilian and amphibian taxa kept, thus indicating that zoos hold a similar number of species of these taxa (Figure ...species; zoos with dedicated ...
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... aquaculture, zoos, aquariums and the hobbyist trade for ...public aquariums are mounted onto bases which are suspended upside down in the transportation bag attached to a Styrofoam® float (Delbeek ...
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Asia Pacific zoos in the 21st century : stakeholder perceptions of the roles and functions of zoos : a thesis submitted in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Environmental Management at Massey University, New Zealand
... encompass zoos, aviaries, reptile parks, insect collections, aquariums and most animal collections that are open to the public (Alexander, 1979; Baratay and Hardouin-Fugier, 2004; Kisling, ...of zoos ...
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... European zoos revealed all ten Philippine crocodiles now kept at the Protivin Crocodile Zoo (Czech Republic) to be pure ...for zoos with expertise in crocodile husbandry that are interested in joining the ...
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... qualitative rather than quantitative techniques can be used where numerical or statistical data are not available or are of limited value – for example, because of small population sizes. Simian immunodeficiency viruses ...
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Asia Pacific zoos in the 21st century : stakeholder perceptions of the roles and functions of zoos : a thesis submitted in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Environmental Management at Massey University, New Zealand
... Zoos in six countries across the Asia-Pacific were visited over a period of six months to March 2013 in order to assess the diversity of the study region. A literature survey and meta-analysis of 138 zoo-based ...
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NEW SPEC UNIT 2 (TOPIC 4)
... Points that could be included are: use naturalistic enclosures in zoos; introduce the animals to naturalistic enclosures from a young age; expose captive-bred animals to natural predat[r] ...
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The Effect of Family on the English Language Learning Development of Children
... museums, zoos, historic sites, cultural activities, traditional games, according to a study group at home, effective use of the language, monitor on TV, and a joint analysis programs, reading papers, monitoring ...
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... Harris et al. (2008) surveyed physical and husbandry conditions and gathered physiological and behavioural data relating to 77 elephants in 13 UK zoos. They proposed indicators of elephant welfare and calculated ...
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Reproductive behaviour, endocrinology and captive breeding of the Malayan Sun bear (Ursus malayanus) : a thesis presented in partial fuflilment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Science in Zoology at Massey University
... Analysis of studbook data and breeding records from Sun bears in North American and New Zealand zoos revealed that reproduction in these populations is strongly seasonal with the majorit[r] ...
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Reproductive Characteristics of the Ocelot (Leopardus pardalis) under Captive Conditions
... Asiatic zoos and from the North America Studbook, showed the following: from 1965 - 2010, 139 captive females had 576 litters with a total of 752 kittens of which 545 were ...
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Comprehensive Serological Analysis of Two Successive Heterologous Vaccines against H5N1 Avian Influenza Virus in Exotic Birds in Zoos
... Vaccination with inactivated recombinant H5N3 vaccine was equally effective as VP1 in eliciting high titers of HI antibodies against H5 among most of the bird orders studied, except for birds belonging to Psittaciformes, ...
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Enduring voice recognition in bonobos
... Individual call sequences contained 4–6 calls and had decreasing intercall intervals along the progression of the sequence, as in the call sequence heard during the real transfer, with a mean total sequence time of 5.70 ...
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