Abderaz Formation is one of the Upper Cretaceous formations in the Kopet-Dagh sedimentary basin. A stratigraphic section from the mentioned formation is selected for detailed systematic description with regard to echinoids. Numerous well preserved representatives of the families Mircrasteridae wright, 1857 and Echinocorythidae Lambert, 1920 are described from the Ghaleh-Zoo stratigraphic sectio...

ABSTRACT When the last known Tasmanian tiger or thylacine (Thylacinus cynocephalus) died in Hobart Zoo, during night of 7th September 1936, its body was reportedly forwarded to Museum. The apparent failure museum preserve has always been disquieting researchers. A detailed examination unpublished zoo and archival records resolved this anomaly. preservation being occasioned by searching for wron...

1. Center for Evolutionary and Conservation Genetics, National Zoological Park, Washington, DC, 20008, USA 2. Australasia Regional Association of Zoological Parks and Aquariums, PO Box 20, Mosman NSW 2088, Australia 3. Alexander Center for Applied Population Biology, Lincoln Park Zoo, 2001 N. Clark St. Chicago, IL 60614, USA 4. Association of Zoos and Aquariums' Population Management Center, Li...

Infectious disease outbreaks can be devastating because of their sudden occurrence, as well as the complexity of monitoring and controlling them. Outbreaks in wildlife are even more challenging to observe and describe, especially when small animals or secretive species are involved. Modeling such infectious disease events is relevant to investigating their dynamics and is critical for decision ...

A zoo experienced several fatalities following an outbreak of a Y. pseudotuberculosis infection in Goeldi’s Marmosets (Callimico goeldii) and Cotton Top Tamarins (Saguinus oedipus). The zoo had previously abandoned its vaccination programme due to no outbreaks over the past few years. The animals underwent a post mortem examination at Greendale Veterinary Laboratories and an infection with Y. p...

In this article we report on our experiences using the OWL 2 reasoners HermiT and Pellet to validate domain-specific languages defined using UML-like metamodels. Currently there exists few tools to validate metamodels. Using ontologies and reasoners to define and validate metamodels is a possible solution to this problem. We evaluate the reasoners according to expressiveness, correctness, perfo...

The aim of the present study was to evaluate the frequency of antibiotic resistance in Salmonella spp. strains from wild animals in captivity at the Culiacan Zoo and the Mazatlan Aquarium in Sinaloa, Mexico. We identified 17 different Salmonella enterica serovars at a prevalence of 19.90% (Culiacan Zoo) and 6.25% (Mazatlan Aquarium). Antibiotic sensitivity tests revealed that, of the 83 strains...

Kurt Benirschke studied cells, placentas, and endangered species in Germany and the US during the twentieth century. Benirschke was professor at the University of California in San Diego, California, and a director of the research department at the San Diego Zoo in San Diego, California. He also helped form the research department of the San Diego Zoo and its sister organization [3], the Center...

The objective of this study was to establish a history of feeding and dietary husbandry of pangolin in captivity. Over the past 150 years, several zoos have attempted to maintain pangolins (Manis spp). Most of these zoos have not succeeded in maintaining these animals for long periods, associated largely with dietary problems. This study reviews the historic records of captive pangolins. The di...

Many computations can be structured using abstract computation types such as monoids, monad transformers or applicative functors. Functional programmers use those abstractions directly while mainstream languages often integrate concrete instances as language features – e.g. generators in Python or asynchronous computations in C# 5.0. The question is, is there a sweet spot between convenient, ha...