The following is a list of services and procedures offered
by the Zoological Medicine Service for owners of small exotic mammals.
The following is a list of services and procedures offered
by the Zoological Medicine Service for bird owners.
Other funded research also is conducted
by zoological parks, aquariums and established animal health - focused organizations, including conservation groups.
There will be activities for children to take part in at the Kid's Area, which will have a bounce house, «Paw» casso prints and even a mini petting zoo with many adorable, baby animals, hosted
by the Zoological Wildlife Foundation.
Are you intrigued
by zoological animals and would like to make a career out of working with them?
The following is a list of services and procedures offered
by the Zoological Medicine Service for reptile owners.
Please visit the species pages for additional services and procedures provided
by the Zoological Medicine Service.
Materials provided
by Zoological Society of San Diego.
The results of a series of autopsies of beached whales carried out
by the Zoological Society of London (ZSL) have led veterinarians to conclude that sperm whales and beaked whales have little chance of survival if they become stranded.
Scientists, led
by the Zoological Society of London (ZSL), UK, and University Twente, Netherlands, are calling for urgent cooperation, according to a comment published today (22 July 2015) in Nature.
Materials provided
by Zoological Society of London.
With only 25 individuals left, the Hainan gibbon (Nomascus hainanus) is the primate closest to extinction, but it could be saved thanks to a rescue plan announced this week
by the Zoological Society of London.
What is the precise point reached at this moment by the human race in the ineluctable curve of growth which is described
by every zoological species in the course of its existence?
Not exact matches
A Rocha was speaking after a study
by the World Wildlife Fund and the
Zoological Society of London found the level of marine life in world's seas has halved since 1970.
There is the unjust exploitation of physical, chemical, biological, and
zoological nature, the ecology in which human nature is embedded,
by industrial and technocratic production processes of «megamachines» (L. Mumford) polluting and destroying environment after environment.
It is with the idea and in the hope of advancing towards a solution of the problem that I here venture, basing my argument on the widest possible
zoological and biological grounds, to put forward a coherent view of the «thinking Earth» in which I believe we may find, undistorted but yet embodying the corrections required
by a change of order, the whole process of Life and of vitalization.
I maintained that, contrary to the commonly expressed or tacitly accepted view, the era of active evolution did not end with the appearance of the human
zoological type: for
by virtue of his acquirement of the gift of individual reflection Man displays the extraordinary quality of being able to totalize himself collectively upon himself, thus extending on a planetary scale the fundamental vital process which causes matter, under Certain conditions, to organize itself in elements which are ever more complex physically, and psychologically ever more centrated.
It is no longer simply a matter of cells organized
by the hazards of natural selection, but of completed
zoological units inventively building themselves into organisms on a planetary scale.
Faced
by the biological dilemma confronting our
zoological group (unite or perish) which are we to accept, which way rather than another, as the direction in which the indeterminacy essential to the human adventure is most likely to be resolved?
For if
by its structure Mankind does not dissipate itself but concentrates upon itself; in other words, if, alone among all the living forms known to us, our
zoological phylum is laboriously moving towards a critical point of speciation, then are not all hopes permitted to us in the matter of survival and irreversibility?
Put his The Riddle of the Universe alongside Adams's masterwork and you can see how neatly Haeckel solves Adams's problem about unity
by getting rid of free will, religion, and the immortality of the soul (that it is immortal «is the highest point of superstition») and
by his theory of spontaneous generation (his
zoological Big Bang that needs no Banger).
They may be regarded as precursors of human creativity, and point to the existence of unsuspected potentials in the organism which are dormant in the normal routines of existence but emerge in response to new challenges offered
by the environment — a
zoological analogy to Toynbee's paradigm of Challenge and Response.
Let us assume that the strangely contagious modern obsession with democratic ideals is nothing else than the feeling and liking Man has acquired for a process which,
by the collective organization of the
zoological group to which he belongs, is carrying him towards certain new states of super-personalization — or, which comes to the same thing, super-reflection.
Cockscomb was the idea of Alan Rabinowitz, an American zoologist who spent years
by himself deep in the Belizean jungles, charting the behavior of the jaguar for the New York
Zoological Society.
VaquitaCPR is an international conservation program led
by SEMARNAT in coordination with the National Marine Mammal Foundation, The Marine Mammal Center, and the Chicago
Zoological Society.
Led
by scientists from ZSL (
Zoological Society of London) and published in the Journal of Animal Ecology, the study highlights how African wild dogs — already classified as Endangered
by the IUCN Red List — raise fewer pups at high temperatures.
The procedure, never tried on a bird, was performed
by Avery Bennett, an assistant professor of wildlife and
zoological medicine at the University of Florida, and Eugene O'Brien, a hand surgeon with the Hand Center in San Antonio, Texas.
An important breakthrough in deciphering these highly complex relationships has now been achieved
by a research team from Kiel University's
Zoological Institute.
Led
by scientists from Chile's Universidad Andres Bello (UNAB), NGO Ranita de Darwin, and international conservation charity ZSL (
Zoological Society of London), working alongside the University of Zurich, this new revelation highlights a need for urgent conservation action.
Bones from an Alvarezsaurid dinosaur were discovered in Uzbekistan and could shed light on the evolution and origin of the species, according to a study published October 25, 2017 in the open - access journal PLOS ONE
by Alexander Averianov of
Zoological Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Russia and Hans - Dieter Sues of the Smithsonian Institution, USA.
A study
by Sallan and Coates was published online July 22 in the
Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society.
Funded
by the National
Zoological Gardens of South Africa, Rufford's Small Grants for Nature, and the National Geographic Society, Parusnath is developing and testing microsatellite markers similar to those used in human parentage tests to establish the genetic relatedness of Sungazers in different populations across the species» distribution.
«The attempts to breed this critically endangered species, and overcome obstacles to natural breeding
by this global consortium of experts is a great example of international cooperation to save endangered species,» said WCS Chief Veterinarian and Bronx - Zoo based Director of
Zoological Health Dr. Paul P. Calle, who worked with Chinese veterinarians on the delicate sedation process.
The study, which has just been published in the Royal Society Journal Biology Letters was carried out
by a team of researchers from Queen's University Belfast, in collaboration with other Institutions in the UK (University of Aberdeen, University of Swansea, Institute of Zoology,
Zoological Society of London, University of Oxford), and elsewhere (North Carolina State University, The Lewis Foundation, South African National Parks, Earth and OCEAN Technologies, Kiel, Germany).
In a joint study, Professor Hervé Bocherens of the University of Tübingen, Germany, together with colleagues from the
Zoological Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences in Saint Petersburg, Russia and the Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences in Brussels, Belgium have found at a cave in the Caucasus Mountains indirect hints of fish consumption
by Neandertals.
The announcement signals a huge success for the species and for ongoing reintroduction efforts initiated
by East China Normal University, Chongming Dongtan Wetland Park, and WCS with the help of U.S. zoos including WCS's Bronx Zoo, and the Saint Augustine Alligator Farm
Zoological Park.
In a new paper, experts outline several novel ideas for improving the lives of Killer whales in
zoological institutions
by enhancing the communication, feeding, environment, and health of the animals in order to elicit natural behaviours seen in the wild.
The study, published in Scottish Journal of Geology, was supported
by the University of Edinburgh and the Royal
Zoological Society of Scotland.
An international team of more than 100 scientists, policy makers and community representatives, led
by international conservation charity the
Zoological Society of London (ZSL), today published a new report outlining the vital steps needed to save the Hainan gibbon (Nomascus hainanus) from extinction.
«Our research shows that habitats surrounding palm oil plantations, although they are affected
by agricultural activity, still sustain a number of threatened species,» says Chris Carbone, a senior research fellow at the
Zoological Society of London.
The volume was inspired
by a symposium held in Sherborn's honour at the Natural History Museum (NHM), London, on the 150th year of his birth in 2011, organised
by the International Commission on
Zoological Nomenclature (ICZN), in collaboration with the Society for the History of Natural History (SHNH).
A new study,
by researchers from the University of Cambridge and the
Zoological Society of London, shows how baboons monitor each other for changes in behaviour that indicate food has been found, such as hunching over to scoop it up.
The Amphibian Survival Alliance is supported
by: Alliance for Zero Extinction Amphibian Ark Arizona State University Chester Zoo North of England
Zoological Society Chicago
Zoological Society Conservation International Deutsche Gesellschaft für Herpetologie und Terrarienkunde (DGHT) Frankfurt
Zoological Society IUCN James Cook University Museo Regionale di Scienze Naturali, Torino Oro Verde Foundation for the Conservation of Tropical Forests Partners in Amphibian and Reptile Conservation Smithsonian Institution Society for Tropical Ecology — gto The Prince's Rainforests Project University of Maryland Washington State University World Association of Zoos and Aquariums Zoo Atlanta
Zoological Society of London Zoologischer Garten Frankfurt
Adaeze and two of her male siblings had to be nursed
by the staff at the LEO
Zoological Conservation Center in Greenwich, Conn..
Support these modern day
zoological facilities
by visiting a Humane Certified ™ zoo or aquarium near you — when you see the Humane Certified ™ seal, rest assured that the facility meets the highest standards of animal care.
The Royal
Zoological Society of Scotland applied to perform the trapping and the licence application states: «Any individuals which are obviously feral domestic cats will be dispatched according to standard predator control practices
by the land manager, with appropriate firearm in one shot with minimal time to death.»
This sentiment is echoed
by Dr. Mark Stetter, Diplomate of the American College of
Zoological Medicine, and Dean of Colorado State University's College of Veterinary Medicine and Biomedical Sciences.
But the definition is much broader — to clarify, zoo animals can be defined as follows: Zoo animals: Zoo animals is the nomenclature officially used
by the American College of
Zoological Medicine (ACZM).
Veterinarians wanting to become specialists in
zoological medicine need to meet criteria and undertake an extensive exam prepared
by ACZM.
It is an international specialty organization recognized
by the American Veterinary Medical Association (AVMA) for certification of veterinarians with special expertise in
zoological medicine.