EAZA Best Practice Guidelines for the Red Panda (Ailurus fulgens).

1. Auflage. 42 Seiten, 3 Abbildungen..
Herausgeber: European Association of Zoosand Aquaria & Rotterdam Zoo

Vorwort:

The first official version of the husbandry andmanagement guidelines for zoo red pandas was published in the fifth edition of the red panda studbook in 1988. The guidelines had been compiled over the previous yearsand were refined at the first red panda conference which was held in Rotterdamin 1987. Information and ideas from many peoplewere compiled into these guidelines. And during the course of the panda conservation workshop held in Front Royal in 1991, the red panda husbandry and management guidelines was updated. Nevertheless, since these meetings there has been a lot of research into red panda diets, pathology, behaviour etc. AZA published the Red Panda Care Manual in 2011. Because none of the publications had a focus on European standards, it was necessary to come up with the EAZA Best Practice Guidelines for the Red Panda.

Volltext: https://www.eaza.net/assets/Uploads/CCC/2015-Red-panda-EAZA-Best-Practice-Guidelines-Approved.pdf 

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Husbandry Manual for the Greater One-horned or Indian Rhinoceros (Rhinoceros unicornis LINNÉ, 1758).

94 Seiten. Zoo Basel.

Vorwort:

To date two husbandry guidelines for Rhinoceroses have been published, the Husbandry Guidelines for Rhinoceroses, edited by Reinhard Göltenboth et al., published in the EEP Yearbook 1994-95 and the AZA Rhinoceros Husbandry Resource Manual, edited by Michael Fouraker & Tarren Wagener (1996). Both guidelines cover all five living rhino species. The Indian or Greater one-horned rhino, however, is in many aspects somewhat atypical. As the International Studbook Keepers and the EEP Species Coordinators we felt the need to have a more specific manual at hand. Using the two general guidelines as a basis, we compiled this mono-specific husbandry manual for the Indian rhino.

The Basel Zoo has been continuously keeping Indian rhinos for almost half a century. So far 27 calves have been born in Basel, including the first captive-born Indian rhino worldwide (male Rudra, 1956). The experiences of a wide variety of collaborators, former and current, of the Basel Zoo, with very different points of view have been summarized in this paper - keepers, technicians, researchers, veterinarians, curators and directors. Further important input came from many other European and American zoos currently keeping Indian rhinos.

These guidelines emphasize the practical aspects of keeping Indian rhinos. In animals with as slow a reproduction as the Indian rhinos, it is often impossible to give recommendations based on statistically sound data. Many observations have been made only a couple of times over a keeper's professional life. Nonetheless, they can give us hints about how to improve our understanding of these beautiful creatures. However, intuition, common sense and good nerves are as important as quantifiable facts if you want to keep Indian rhinos successfully.

Volltext:

http://www.rhinoresourcecenter.com/pdf_files/125/1251304516.pdf

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EAZA Best Practice Guidelines Black rhinoceros (Diceros bicornis)

85 Seiten, mit Abbildungen, Verbreitungskartten und Tabellen.
1st edition. EAZA Amsterdam.  

EAZA Preamble

Right from the very beginning it has been the concern of EAZA and the EEPs to encourage and promote the highest possible standards for husbandry of zoo and aquarium animals. For this reason, quite early on, EAZA developed the “Minimum Standards for the Accommodation and Care of Animals in Zoos and Aquaria”. These standards lay down general principles of animal keeping, to which the members of EAZA feel themselves  committed. Above and beyond this, some countries have defined regulatory minimum standards for the keeping of individual species  regarding the size and  furnishings  of  enclosures  etc., which, according  to  the  opinion  of  authors,  should  definitely be fulfilled before allowing such animals to be kept within the area of the jurisdiction of those countries. These minimum standards are intended to determine the borderline of acceptable animal welfare. It is not permitted to fall short of these standards. How difficult it is to determine the standards, however, can be seen in the fact that minimum standards vary from country to country.

Above and beyond this, specialists of the EEPs and TAGs have undertaken the considerable task of laying down guidelines for keeping individual animal species. Whilst some aspects of husbandry reported in the guidelines will define minimum standards, in  general, these  guidelines are not to  be  understood as minimum equirements; they represent best practice. As such the EAZA Best Practice Guidelines for keeping animals intend rather to describe  the desirable design of nclosures and prerequisites for animal keeping  that are, according to the  present state  of  knowledge, considered as being optimal for each species. They intend above all to indicate how  nclosures should be designed and what conditions should be fulfilled for the optimal care of individual species.

Preamble

These Best Practice Guidelines were based on "concept husbandry guidelines for Black rhino (Diceros bicornis)" which were produced by Valentijn Assenberg and Thijs van den Houten for the final thesis of their Animal  Management course at the Van  Hall Larenstein Institute. The data to form the concept husbandry guidelines was collected by a literature study and a questionnaire. The literature was chosen from a number of sources. A full referencelist can be found at the end of this document.
The questionnaire was partly based on the AZA husbandry manual and partly on the EAZA husbandry guidelines for the greater one-horned rhino. The AZA husbandry manual was published in 1996 and covers all five rhino species and is made with the help of the International Rhino Foundation. The EAZA husbandry guidelines for the Greater one-horned rhino were published in 2002 by Basel Zoo.

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Husbandry Guidelines for Goodfellow’s Tree-Kangaroo Dendrolagus goodfellowi Mammalia: Macropodidae.

TAFE NSW - Western Sydney Institute, Richmond College, N.S.W. Australia

73 Seiten. Verbreitungskarte, Tabellen, 6 Anhänge

Volltext (PDF):

https://nswfmpa.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/Mammals.-Goodfellows-Tree-Kangaroo-2008DD.pdf

Introduction:

Tree kangaroos are very different from the other members of the Macropodidae family because they live an arboreal existence. They are similar to the other members of the kangaroo family in many respects, but, because of their habitat preferences, they were mistaken for monkeys by early European explorers. There are ten species of tree kangaroos, that live in rainforest habitats in Irian Jaya,
Papua New Guinea, and northern Queensland, Australia. Two species, are found in Australia, while eight are found in Papua New
Guinea, one of which is Goodfellow’s Tree-kangaroo.

Although D. goodfellowi is more difficult to maintain than other species of Tree-kangaroo, it has been successfully kept and bred in captivity. Breeding groups of Tree-kangaroo were primarily established in Papua New Guinea, Baiyer River Sanctuary. This was carried out for the purpose of propagation as a conservation tool. The most significant predators of tree kangaroos in recent times are humans, though, the New Guinea highland dog, domestic dogs, large pythons, and raptorial birds are also threats. Habitat destruction is another reason why many Dendrolagus species are now being threatened.

There are three sub-species of Goodfellow’s Tree-kangaroo, D. goodfellowi goodfellowi, D. goodfellowi buergersi, D. goodfellowi pulcherrimus. The status for D. goodfellowi goodfellowi and D. goodfellowi buergersi is endangered and D. goodfellowi pulcherrimus is critically endangered.

dominique-biblio

The social behaviour and captive management of Bennett's wallabies, Macropus rufogriseus rufogriseus.  

MSc Thesis, University of Tasmania

278 Seiten mit Fotos, Grafiken und Tabellen.

Abstract:

The Bennett's wallaby, Macropus rufogriseus rufogriseus, is frequently exhibited in wildlife parks and zoos in Australia and overseas. The social behaviour of the Bennett's wallaby was investigated and its role in developing captive management strategies was considered. A questionnaire was mailed to 31 wildlife parks and zoos within Australia and New Zealand to collect information on current husbandry practices and to provide a basis for experimental manipulations of a captive group. A comprehensive behavioural inventory was compiled using observations of captive Bennett's wallabies at Bonorong Wildlife Park and the University of Tasmania, as well as wild wallabies at Coal Mines Nature Reserve on the Tasman Peninsula and Mt Field National Park in south-eastern Tasmania. Wallabies at the university enclosure devoted the greatest portion of both the day and night time browsing or attending feeding stations, although more time was devoted to browsing during the day and feeding at night.. Alert postures were sustained for longer periods during the day than at night. These activities were alternated with long and frequent periods of resting. Social interactions of any kind were rarely observed, particularly during the daytime.

The collection of Bennett's wallabies established at the University of Tasmania were utilised in experimental manipulations examining the effects of varying the number and position of feeding stations available, stocking rates and the age and gender of group members on the frequencies of performing elements of behaviour and occupying sectors of the enclosure. When four feeders were spaced throughout the 1000 m² of the enclosure wallabies occupied more sectors, were more active and interacted significantly more often than when feeders were positioned near to each other or their numbers reduced. When stocked at rates of three, six or nine animals per 1000 m², wallabies were more visible and active and interacted amicably more frequently at the medium stocking rate than at other times. When more adults were included in the captive group than members of other age classes, the proportion of time that wallabies were hidden from view in refuges within enclosure vegetation slightly increased but was offset by increased activity at other times, when wallabies alternated browsing and feeding with the adoption of alert postures, increased locomotory activity, more grooming and a greater number of social interactions.

These findings were used as a basis from which were developed principles of best practice in the captive management of Bennett's wallabies and other macropodoids.

Volltext:

https://eprints.utas.edu.au/19154/1/whole_ChapmanMichelleElizabeth2003_thesis.pdf

Haltungsempfehlungen für Fruchttauben - Eine vergleichende Studie zur Verbesserung der Zuchtergebnisse zwischen Zoologischen Gärten und Privatzüchtern

Diplomarbeit

216 Seiten

Ganze Arbeit

Institut für Biologie, Fachbereich Biologie, Chemie und Pharmazie der Freien Universität Berlin
Betreuer: Fr. Prof. Dr. Constanze Scharff
Verschiedene Zoos in Europa

Zusammenfassung:

In 21 privaten und öffentlichen Haltungen von Fruchttauben der Gattung Ptilinopus wurden vergleichende Untersuchungen hinsichtlich des Haltungserfolges und den diesem jeweils zugrunde liegenden Haltungsbedingungen durchgeführt. Der Haltungserfolg definierte sich zu gleichen Teilen aus Aufzuchtrate pro Zuchtpaar, Lebens/ Haltungsdauer und Todesrate. Die Haltungsbedingungen wurden in Kardinal- und Nebenhaltungsbedingungen unterschieden. Erstere wurden statistisch, letztere quantitativ ausgewertet. Für einige Haltungsbedingungen konnten, gemessen am Haltungserfolg, klare Optimalausprägungen gefunden werden, oft konnten aber auch nur begründete, aber nicht vollständig beweisbare Vermutungen getroffen werden. Die Haltungsergebnisse bei Privathaltern sind insgesamt besser als in Zoologischen Gärten. Dazu passt die signifikante Auswirkung von Publikumsverkehr auf den Haltungserfolg, die herauskristallisiert werden konnte. Eine enge Zusammenarbeit zwischen Zoos und Privatzüchtern erscheint angesichts der Ergebnisse notwendig, um die Fruchttaubenzucht zu optimieren.

Abstract:

In 21 institutions which keep Fruit doves of the genus Ptilinopus, both private and public, investigations were made about breeding success and breeding conditions which lay the basement therefore. Breeding success constitutes from hatching rate per breeding pair, life/ keeping span and death rate. Breeding conditions were divided into main and additional breeding conditions. First were analyzed statistically second were analyzed in a quantitative way. For some breeding conditions, clear optimum features were found compared to breeding success. Most times, just reasonable but not waterproofed findings are given. Breeding results are better in private than in public institutions, on the whole. Thereto it refers, that visitors are a significant factor which influences breeding success. A close cooperation between zoos and private breeders is needed facing these results to optimize breeding of fruit doves in captivity.

ruske-biblio

Mindestanforderungen an die artgerechte Haltung von Krokodilen in privaten Terrarien und zoologischen Einrichtungen, 2. Teil – Artentabellen.

Zoolog. Garten N.F. 78 (2009) Heft 4: 193-203

Abstract:

Based on the theoretical facts of the previously released text version of the minimum requirements for the keeping of crocodiles, the authors now publish in addition a list with specific data for practical use. This list allows a quick overview of the most important details that should be considered while keeping crocodiles. The authors have compiled specific details for every known species of crocodiles.

Mindestanforderungen an die artgerechte Haltung von Krokodilen in privaten Terrarien und zoologischen Einrichtungen.

Der Zoologische Garten 78(2-3): 102-131.

The minimum requirements for the keeping of crocodiles in private and public institutions are set up by a collective of authors. Important aspects such as the design of enclosures, secure handling and keeping, thermoregulation, protection of animals, feeding, behavioural enrichment and diseases and their prophylaxis are important topics. The authors critically deal with existing guidelines and give suggestions on how crocodiles can be kept appropriately and according to existing laws at the same time. Special attention is given to the aspects of current legislation. It is stressed that there should be given proper attention to the qualification of the keeping institution as to the biology of the animals as well as to security aspects. A table of species completes the text with a short array of important features to be considered in the keeping of crocodiles.

Copyright © 2009 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.

DOI: 10.1016/j.zoolgart.2008.09.001