The Importance of Keeper Input

Who am I ?

Who are you ?

What do you do?

What do you do?

What do you do?

What do you do?

Muck Out /cleanFeedWaterRecord/ObserveEnclosure furnishingDesignEnrichmentPublic engagementMove animals/transportTraining animalsVet assistanceGiving medication

What do you do?

Muck Out /cleanFeedWaterRecord/ObserveEnclosure furnishingDesignEnrichmentPublic engagementMove animals/transportTraining animalsVet assistanceGiving medication

Training KeepersEthical issuesWelfare reviewsH&S Assessments /PDREscape reportsCollection PlanPopulation Management Policy

What do you do?

Muck Out /cleanFeedWaterRecord/ObserveEnclosure furnishingDesignEnrichmentPublic engagementMove animals/transportTraining animalsVet assistanceGiving medication

Training KeepersEthical issuesWelfare reviewsH&S Assessments /PDR.......................

What? do you record

What?

1. Life history traits2. Daily Events3. Medical Information4. Routine housing and husbandry5. Body Measurements6. Others?

What?Why?

What?Why?

LegalTo pass on informationTo build up a history To learn To have an auditable trailOther??

Zoo Licensing Act 1981

Annual return 9 column report

Kept for 6 years

CITES (Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora)

Animal Moves – TRACES / ITACH

Balai directive

Animal by-products

What?Why?

When?

What?Why?

When?

What?Why?

When? How?

NotebooksSection diaries

Daily Report Sheets

Arks –Animal Record Keeping SystemZIMS – Zoo Information management systems

MedARKS – Medical Animal Record-Keeping SystemISIS – International Species Information System

SPARKS – The Single Population Analysis & Record Keeping System

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What Do You See?

Clips

1 Tiger

2 Rhino

3 Vids and bits\Sitty1.MOV

4 Vids and bits\Sitty2.MOV

5 Vids and bits\Sitty3.MOV

Does the observation stand alone?

Golden Lion Tamarin George weighted 523g

Does the observation stand alone?

Golden Lion Tamarin A 6789 (George, breeding male from family group 1.2.2 in unit J23) routine weighted using training onto scales (see training notes 06/10/13) 523g, body score 3, appears in good health, photo taken.

Examples Nonsensical reports

Roan calf born at dinnertime

Kudu – two females walking very unsteady on back legs – calf born last thing

Death from the breaches of growth Hyrax - Couple of animals looking a bite under condition

Sapely F4 given 1.25ml of synulox

Left ear looking the same as yesterday (no previous record)

Looking more normal than before

Looks like a broken leg

ClearAccurateConcise

TIPImagine someone from another zoo or even doesn't work in a zoo is reading it.

!!!!! NTR !!!!!

Ethics ?

‘Something about it that I don’t like’ * #

Welfare *

What do Zoo’s Do ?

What do Zoo’s Do ?

Breeding programs

Recreation

Public Engagement

Education

Research

Conservation

EEP/breeding programs

EEP/breeding programs

Financial Problems

EEP/breeding programs

Lose Integrity

Education?Research? Welfare?

EEP/breeding programs

EducationResearch Welfare

EEP/breeding programs

EducationResearch Welfare

EEP/breeding programs

Bringing it all together

Without records none of this can be done

Without you records cant be done

KP

What have you learnt?

How observant are you?

Don't forget to keep looking

THANK YOU