Lecture 7

Question 1

random info

Answer 1

Welfare is still legally based on the five freedoms.
Affective states are important in providing top welfare.
Environment needs to provide rewarding challenges and choices over time (providing choice and independence).

Question 2

What are the roots of the 5 domains pyramid? What’s at the top?

Answer 2

• Physiological needs

Choice and mental stimulation.

Question 3

Measuring welfare in zoos? In zoo industry?

Answer 3

• Independent audits (as independent as you make them?) MPI in NZ? - usually vets, so its often health orientated (looking for absence of health problems or poor behaviour) because of animal welfare act
• Object accreditation - zoo industry tends to accredit zoo industry
• Valid research-based measurement ??
Transparent and publicized results - can lead to change if accepted. Some cite anecdotal evidence if publicized results do not add up.

Question 4

Most important part of one plan approach?

Answer 4

All populations are considered.

Question 5

Conservation vs conservation biology?

Answer 5

• Conservation in zoos (education, research, entertainment and funding)
  
  • Conservation biology is the science of getting animals back into the wild

Question 6

Conservation as a paradigm or direct output?

Answer 6

Both, captive breeding and release as direct output, and changes in society towards conservation ideals as a paradigm.

Question 7

Conservation outputs and outcomes?

Answer 7

• Captive releases with no success

Lots of money to in-situ projects with no species saved

Question 8

How do zoos do conservation?

Answer 8

• Direct, captive breeding/population management, internal and external integrated conservation (funding, supplying people to in-situ programs, education).

Question 9

What could be bad about hybridization?

Answer 9

• That it might not be able to survive in either niche.