Just a few Questions ?

[garyjp]

Hello everyone - am trying to find a few answers and hopefully you lovely people can answer some/all . I will just list them as questions ?

1. Do Zoos have an excess animal list which they transfer from one zoo to another ?
2. Do Zoos actually sell animals to each other ?
3. Do Zoos profile their individual animals on behaviour etc ?
4. Are Zoos graded as to what species they can keep and therefore does this affect the choice of species ?
5. If a brand new zoo were to open tomorrow - how would they go about procuring animals from other zoos when they have no history of animal management ?
6. Over the recent years there seems to be a bit of a tick box as to what species most zoos have meerkats for example - is this just following a trend ?
7. Are animals graded on their ability to be housed in captivity ?

 

[Echobeast]

1. Yes it’s called the surplus list. Most accredited zoos have it.
2. Depends on the situation but the answer is yes sometimes zoos sell animals to each other. Larger zoos usually don’t though and mostly share costs for shipping and crates and no money gets transferred for the animal.
3. If you mean record behavior information to be used by them and other facilities then yes. This comes in handy when making breeding recommendations.
4. Zoos are not “graded” but governments give out the permits to hold certain dangerous or threatened species. This means usually it’s harder for unaccredited to get permits for certain species but this is not always the case.
5. Most zoos start as private collections produced by private breeders and purchased by the owner.
6. This is a complicated topic but in short, there are a lot of meerkats in captivity, they are a popular animal for guests, and zoos invest money in appropriate exhibits for meerkats. In other cases, zoos may seem homogenous because they are keeping the same species to better suit the captive breeding population of those species.
7. Again there is not grading system but experts create care sheets and manuals for most captive species and zoos make decisions on if to keep one species or another for a variety of reasons, one is the amount of care that species needs.

 

[garyjp]

1. Yes it’s called the surplus list. Most accredited zoos have it.
2. Depends on the situation but the answer is yes sometimes zoos sell animals to each other. Larger zoos usually don’t though and mostly share costs for shipping and crates and no money gets transferred for the animal.
3. If you mean record behavior information to be used by them and other facilities then yes. This comes in handy when making breeding recommendations.
4. Zoos are not “graded” but governments give out the permits to hold certain dangerous or threatened species. This means usually it’s harder for unaccredited to get permits for certain species but this is not always the case.
5. Most zoos start as private collections produced by private breeders and purchased by the owner.
6. This is a complicated topic but in short, there are a lot of meerkats in captivity, they are a popular animal for guests, and zoos invest money in appropriate exhibits for meerkats. In other cases, zoos may seem homogenous because they are keeping the same species to better suit the captive breeding population of those species.
7. Again there is not grading system but experts create care sheets and manuals for most captive species and zoos make decisions on if to keep one species or another for a variety of reasons, one is the amount of care that species needs.

Thank you for the reply - I see your in America are those answers generic across the world or just apply in the states? Is the surplus list available for the general public to see or only in the Zoo community ? And for instance as most zoos start from private collections ,one would assume if you were starting from scratch you could only have access to species that dealers/breeders have, therefore you couldn't necessarily design your zoo on what you wanted to keep.- my son is doing a project at school on starting,building & funding a business from scratch and he has picked a zoo hence i know some of the questions are theoretical

 

[birdsandbats]

Thank you for the reply - I see your in America are those answers generic across the world or just apply in the states? Is the surplus list available for the general public to see or only in the Zoo community ? And for instance as most zoos start from private collections ,one would assume if you were starting from scratch you could only have access to species that dealers/breeders have, therefore you couldn't necessarily design your zoo on what you wanted to keep.- my son is doing a project at school on starting,building & funding a business from scratch and he has picked a zoo hence i know some of the questions are theoretical

The responses there cover zoos all over the world. Zoo surplus lists are usually not available to the public. And yes - private zoos are limited to species that can be found from private breeders - but there are lots of species available in this way, especially in the US but every else as well.

 

[FBBird]

The responses there cover zoos all over the world. Zoo surplus lists are usually not available to the public. And yes - private zoos are limited to species that can be found from private breeders - but there are lots of species available in this way, especially in the US but every else as well.

In U.K. at least, there is some flow of animals between zoos and private breeders. Much depends on the individual situation.

 

[Rayane]

When you talk about private zoos, you mean privately owned ? If yes then I think at some point, if they get big enough, they're just like any other big zoos. (Beauval, Pairi Daiza)