People often have difficulty to take pictures of animals, since animals usually do not react with cameras nor understand verbal directions. To solve this problem, we developed a new interaction technique, AnimalCatcher, which can attract animals' attention easily. The AnimalCatcher shoots various sounds using directional speaker to capture various reactions of animals. This paper describes conc...

Planktonic organisms constitute the base of many aquatic food webs. Indeed zooplankton is the key mediator between energy synthesized by phytoplankton and higher trophic levels. Because plankton can vary quickly in term of abundance and biomass according to variations of environmental conditions, it constitutes a significant bio-indicator of global changes like increasing of atmospheric CO 2 , ...

Various body condition scoring (BCS) methods have been developed as management tools in zoo animal husbandry. In contrast to BCS for farm animals, where visual and palpable features are used, these protocols are mainly restricted to visual cues. Considering their inherent subjectivity, such methods face scepticism as their reliability is questioned. In terms of their respective methodology, com...

Wael Khamas1*, Mohamed Al-Tikriti2, Mohanad Albayati3, Suzana Tkalcic1 and Curtis Eng4 1College of Veterinary Medicine, Western University of Health Sciences, 309 E Second Street, Pomona, CA 91766, USA 2College of Osteopathic Medicine of the Pacific, Western University of Health Sciences, 309 E Second Street, Pomona, CA 91766, USA 3Department of Pharmacology and Physiology, College of Veterinar...

Contact with people, both familiar (e.g., caretakers) and unfamiliar (e.g., members of the public), is a significant part of the lives of nonhuman animals in zoos. The available empirical evidence shows that in many cases this contact represents a source of stress to the animals, although there is sufficient overall ambiguity in these studies to suggest that the effect of people on the animals ...