The paper is devoted to the study of influence visitors (a visitor effect) on behavior lions Panthera leo in three Russian zoos (Moscow, Yaroslavl and Sochi). Large aviary shelters availability have been shown be important factors animal welfare. This allows animals independently regulate level stimulation from zoo visitors. All changed their with an increase number near enclosures. At same tim...

This article elaborates a local history of zoo feeding practices in order to shed light on the construction knowledge at zoo, its intersection with laboratory developments life sciences, and nature sciences. It relies case studies two oldest zoological gardens world-the Jardin des Plantes Ménagerie Paris (1793) London Zoological Gardens (1828)-both which formed parts major scientific institutio...

myiasis is the infection caused by a variety of dipterous (fly) larvae in vertebrate’s tissue (man and domestic or wild animals). species of gasterophilus are obligate parasite of horses, donkeys, zebras, elephants and rhinoceroses. there are records worldwide, but mostly, in tropical and subtropical regions. this case report describes a type of gastric myiasis caused by g. intestinalis in an o...

Overexpression of abnormal behavior among captive primates indicates poor management practices. The type, frequency, and contributing factors behaviors vary highly across individual animals in settings. This study explored if sex, rearing history, the number visitors, type visitor-monkey interactions affected rhesus macaques (Macaca mulatta) housed at Central Zoo Kathmandu, Nepal. Behavioral ob...

the surface water chemistry of thiruvananthapuram museum lake was carried out in the period of february 2013 to january 2014. correlation study of the parameters and overall ccme wqi (canadian council of ministers of the environment water quality index) was also prepared in the study for the lake water. the parameters analysed are cations such as ca2+, na+, mg2+ and k+ and the anions like po4-,...

We analysed the reports of government-appointed inspectors from 192 zoos between 2005-2008 to provide the first review of how animal welfare was assessed in British zoos since the enactment of the Zoo Licensing Act 1981. We examined the effects of whether or not a veterinarian was included in the inspection team, type of inspection, licence status of the zoo and membership of a zoo association ...

In February 2007, an outbreak of respiratory disease occurred in a group of giant anteaters (Myrmecophaga tridactyla) at the Nashville Zoo. Isolates from 2 affected animals were identified in March 2007 as a type A influenza virus related to human influenza subtype H1N1.

64 Unusal 3 tumor cases in zoo animals: Malignant Schwannoma, Combined Hepatocellular and Cholangiocellular Carcinoma and Carcinoid Lung Tumor N.Y. Park, H.S. Cho, Y.S. Kim, N.S. Shin, N.V. Kurkure, M. Subramanian Department of Veterinary Pathology, College of Veterinary Medicine, Chonnam National University, Gwangju, Korea 2 College of Veterinary Medicine, Seoul National University and KRF Zoo...