1Diet.?This was a difficulty. The normal food for a gorilla is the tops of bamboo shoots and wild celery, which means an enormous amount of roughage : a male gorilla is said to pass 1 cwt. of faeces a day. The Zoo diet arranged for him was milk, special wholemeal bread, and bananas (he was having forty-eight a day at the outbreak of war), and when bananas were no longer obtainable they were rep...

Two waterbucks from São Paulo Zoo Foundation exhibited respiratory symptoms in July 2004. After euthanasia, granulommas in lungs and mediastinic lymph nodes were observed. Acid-fast bacilli isolated were identified as Mycobacterium bovis spoligotype SB0121 by PRA and spoligotyping. They were born and kept in the same enclosure with the same group, without any contact to other species housed in ...

Assessing dietary protein of colobus monkeys through faecal sample analysis: a tool to evaluate habitat quality Colin A. Chapman*, Terry Webb, Raime Fronstin, Michael D. Wasserman and Ada Mayte Santamaria Department of Zoology, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL 32611, Wildlife Conservation Society, 185th Street and Southern Boulevard, Bronx, NY 10460 and Metro Zoo Miami, One Zoo Boulevard,...

The increasing popularity of wireless technologies and mobile computing devices has enabled new application areas and research. One of these new areas is pervasive systems in urban environments, because urban environments are characterized by high concentration of these technologies and devices. In this paper we will show the process of pervasive system design in urban environments, using as us...

Human personality and behavior genetic studies have resulted in a growing consensus that five heritable factors account for most variance in human personality. Prior research showed that chimpanzee personality is composed of a dominance-related factor and five human-like factors--Surgency, Dependability, Emotional Stability, Agreeableness, and Openness. Genetic, shared zoo, and nonshared enviro...

It is one of Kurt Schiitte's great merits to have established cut-elimination on infinitary derivations as a powerful and elegant tool for proof-theoretic investigations. Compared to the Gentzen-Takeuti approach where ordinals are assigned to finite derivations in a rather cryptic way, the use of infinitary derivations together with the canonical assignment of ordinals as lengths of derivations...

Zoo animals may be particularly vulnerable to water sources contaminated with cyanobacterial toxins given their nonvoluntary close association with this resource. However, the prevalence and potential threat of toxic cyanobacteria in this setting are unknown. Several otherwise unexplained yellow-bellied slider (Trachemys scripta scripta) deaths were documented in a zoo moat with recurring bloom...

Chimpanzees in laboratory colonies experience more wounds on weekdays than on weekends, which has been attributed to the increased number of people present during the week; thus, the presence of more people was interpreted as stressful. If this were also true for primates in zoos, where high human presence is a regular feature, this would clearly be of concern. Here we examine wounding rates in...

Understanding the demands and satisfaction levels of zoo visitors becomes indispensable to sustain a flow of visitors in the increasingly competitive tourism market. This research assessed the importance and performance of the service and facilities attributes in order to measure visitor satisfaction using an importance-performance analysis (IPA). Results of the questionnaire survey of 697 visi...