Not the Annual StockTaking Story again!
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On the park news section of Yorkshire wildlife parks it talks about an annual inventory of animals there which I presume is the same thing?
Anyone else notice that it says, "Siberian white tiger", at the end of the report? I thought only Bengal Tigers could be white
The gene comes from a Bengal tiger, but as if breeding them to be a different colour wasn't impressive enough, they hybridized them with Amurs to make them 'bigger and more impressive looking'
Frankly, I don't quite understand why zoos make such a big thing about the annual stocktake. It's necessary I agree but surely, in the case of most species, the records maintained by the zoo should provide accurate numbers anyway. Most species (fish and invertebrates excepted) are rarely maintained in huge numbers anyway, and the primate keeper (to give just one random example) surely knows how many Ruffed Lemurs he or she is in charge of without entering the enclosure with a clipboard to manually count them. Surely every morning each and every one is checked and accounted for anyway.
its probably good advertising and a guaranteed news story, which may make more people think a day at the zoo would be nice. Win-win for the zoozooman64 said:
Yes, but Zooman rightly points out- why do they do it in the first place? I think the 'news' angle is just a fortunate by-product of an activity they carry out anyway- or do they just pretend they are counting the animals, to get the publicity from it? confused:
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volvox
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I sort of see it as being like the (human) census. The animals are all counted and entered on a data base ON THE SAME DAY. The next day things might change as something is always being born or dying; but they can publish an accurate record of the zoo population at a particular time each year. Obviously with the bigger animals the keepers will know the numbers and can just write them down; not so with smaller animals which will have to be manually counted. Of course for the cameras a keeper counting penguins or whatever is photogenic so zoos are bound to exploit the opportunity for free publicity, and who can blame them?