Hepatitis E virus (HEV) can infect not only human but also several animals. This study has been conducted to evaluate the comprehensive anti-HEV seroprevalence in zoo animals in Korea. Anti-HEV antibodies were identified in 14 of 64 zoo animal species. HEV antibodies were detected for the first time in Eurasian Lynx, Setland Pony, Fallow Deer, Ezo Sika, Formosa Deer, East Wapitis, Barasingha, C...

The isolation and characterization of Escherichia coli O157:H7 strains from 22 out of 174 fecal samples from petting zoo animals representing twenty-two different species (camel, lion, goats, zebra, bear, baboon monkey, Siberian monkey, deer, elk, llama, pony, horses, fox, kangaroo, wolf, porcupine, chickens, tiger, ostrich, hyena, dogs, and wildcats) were investigated. One petting Al-Zawraa zo...

A comparative study of ecological and biological parameters soils the Rostov-on-Don Zoo was carried out in 2017-2020. Monitoring sites were studied areas various purpose: aviaries with different animals, recreation area, park area. The control plot a relatively undisturbed section territory zoo. Different revealed heterogeneity conditions soil properties. most significant difference physical pr...

Zusammenfassung Der Beitrag beschäftigt sich aus einer tierlinguistischen Perspektive mit ›sprechenden‹ Tieren als kulturellem Phänomen, einem Fokus auf Zookommunikation bzw. ›Zootieren‹. Anhand exemplarischer gesprächslinguistischer Analysen wird gezeigt, wie ›Zootiere‹ in Zoo-Doku-Soap zum Sprechen gebracht werden, d. h. welchen sprachlichen Mitteln der Off-Kommentar die Rede animiert. Die ti...

In Japan, yaen kōen or “wild monkey parks” are popular visitor attractions that show free-ranging monkey troops to the paying public. Unlike zoos, which display nonhuman animals through confinement, monkey parks control the movements of the monkeys through provisioning. The parks project an image of themselves as “natural zoos,” claiming to practice a more authentic form of displaying animals-i...

In summer 2007, with the help of a written questionnaire, the attitudes of more than 400 visitors to the zoological garden of Zurich, Switzerland, toward the idea of feeding live insects to lizards, live fish to otters, and live rabbits to tigers were investigated. The majority of Swiss zoo visitors agreed with the idea of feeding live prey (invertebrates and vertebrates) to zoo animals, both o...

In this paper a novel visitor information system for zoos is described. Vistors going through the zoo hold PDAs close to RFID tags, which are attached to animal cages, and which thus identify the animals. Over WLAN, the PDAs send this ID to a Web server, which sends back a multimedia Web presentation for the respective animal. The novel idea is to additionally attach the Web server to a global ...

Dhaka Zoo with 2000 animal heads of 184 species from significant genetic diversity and five million visitors’ influx round the year is placing it a public health important spot. This study was conducted to investigate aspergillosis in animals at Dhaka Zoo to ascertain animal health, welfare and public health safety standard. One hundred and two necropsied tissue samples preserved in 10% neutral...