Author details ViroScience Lab, Erasmus Medical Center, Erasmus MC, Room Ee1714, dr. Molewaterplein 50, Rotterdam 3015, GE, The Netherlands. Artemis One Health Research Institute, Utrecht, The Netherlands. VISAVET Centre, Animal Health Department, Complutense University of Madrid, Madrid, Spain. Department of Genetics, Erasmus Medical Center, Rotterdam, The Netherlands. Veterinary Services, Rot...

the study was carried out in zoo animals at islamabad zoo, pakistan to know the prevalence of bovinetuberculosis. an overall prevalence of 3.3% was recorded in zoo animals with 3.6% in bovidae, 3.2% incervidae and 0% in equidae families. the positive animals included spotted deer (1/3; 95% ci = 0.84,90.57), chinkara gazella (1/5; 95% ci = 0.51, 71.64) and blackbuck gazelle (1/30; 95% ci = 0.08,...

Zoological institutions play an important role in promoting the goals of the One Health movement. We launched the Institute for Conservation Medicine (ICM) at the Saint Louis Zoo in 2011 to advance the goals of One Health. In 2016, we distributed a survey to Zoo members to evaluate member awareness and understanding of One Health and to provide direction for future communication and actions fro...

Sicherheitsmaßnahmen in der digitalen Welt sind meist bereits vorhandenen Sicherheitsmaßnahmen der realen Welt nachempfunden. Das mag daran liegen, dass Vertrauen letztlich stets in der realen Welt begründet ist und Sicherheitsmaßnahmen gerade bei fehlendem Vertrauen der Akteure notwendig sind. Wie wir in der realen Welt mit Vertrauen umgehen, lässt sich am Beispiel eines Studierenden zeigen, d...

This study uses a multi-year temporal climate analogue approach to explore zoo visitor responses to seasonal climatic anomalies and assess the impacts of projected climate change on zoo visitation in Toronto, Canada. A new method for selecting a representative weather station was introduced which ranks surrounding stations based on “climatic distance” rather than physical distance alone. Two ye...

The zoo community seeks improved relevance to society by contributing to restoration of biological diversity, but faces special challenges to meeting this admirable policy goal. We examine zoos’ effectiveness in endangered species restoration, public education, and policy and operations. We suggest that the zoo community can improve its performance in a complex context by better clarifying its ...

We conducted a cross-sectional study to determine the prevalence of antimicrobial resistance (AMR) in fecal Escherichia coli isolates from raccoons (Procyon lotor) living in Ontario, Canada. From June to October 2007, we trapped raccoons in three areas: one primarily urban site around Niagara, one primarily rural site north of Guelph, and one at the Toronto Zoo. In addition, we conducted a long...

Concern for zoo animals is palpable throughout society in many countries in South East Asia. It is important to understand problems of animal welfare in order for zoos to make significant improvement in maintaining high standards. With a case study of 3 zoos in Thailand, this article presents results for the first time on how ethics and welfare evaluations are conducted in South East Asian zoos...

Over the past three years, in collaboration with several domain scientists, we have studied the needs of a wide range of experimental disciplines, developed solutions to some of the basic problems in experiment management, and have made significant progress towards implementing a simple Desktop Experiment Management Environment (DEME) called Zoo. Our work has proceeded in a tight loop between d...