Programmatic Approaches to Assessing and Improving Animal Welfare in Zoos and Aquariums
Programmatic Approaches to Assessing and Improving Animal Welfare in Zoos and Aquariums
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10.1002/zoo.20260
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发表时间：
2009-11-01
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1.3
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Barber, Joseph C. E.
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作者：
Barber, Joseph C. E.
公众、专业和科学对动物园和水族馆动物福利的关注一直很强烈，但在整个社区中始终如一地实施福利评估工具仍然具有挑战性。间接方法可以用来评估“福利潜力”——动物在受到照顾的基础上获得良好福利的潜力。动物园和水族馆通过持续致力于开发动物护理指南（例如动物护理手册）来关注石油福利潜力，这些指南可以在机构认证或认证中发挥作用。动物园和水族馆协会动物福利委员会一直在寻求通过开发综合福利方法或框架的概念来最大化福利潜力的方法-试图确定推荐的动物护理计划（例如，浓缩，营养，兽医护理，研究和动物培训计划）及其计划组成部分。客观地评估动物护理建议对个体动物福利的影响，对于确定方案方法的有效性非常重要。未来动物园和水族馆的福利评估将包括种群水平的评估——跟踪来自正式和非正式机构动物报告的健康和行为方面的新趋势。随着技术和数据库管理软件的进步，共享这些信息并使用流行病学方法对数据进行荟萃分析将变得更加容易。在圈养动物群体中识别福利“红旗/绿旗”将为更有针对性的评估提供方向，最终为更有效的动物护理计划的设计提供信息。动物园生物学，2009:519-530。(C) 2009 Wiley-Liss, Inc。
There continues to be intense public, professional, and scientific focus on the welfare of animals in zoos and aquariums, but implementing Welfare assessment tools consistently throughout this community remains challenging. Indirect Measures can be Used to assess "welfare potential"-the potential that animals will experience good welfare based on the care that they are provided with. Zoos and aquariums focus Oil welfare potential with their Continued commitment to develop animal care guidelines (e.g. Animal Care Manuals) that can play a role within institutional accreditation or certification. The Association of Zoos and Aquariums Animal Welfare Committee has been Pursuing approaches to maximize welfare potential by developing the concept of In integrated welfare approach or framework-an attempt to identify recommended animal care programs (e.g. enrichment, nutrition, veterinary care, research, and animal training programs) and their programmatic components. Objectively assessing the influence that animal care recommendations have on the welfare of individual animals is important to determine the efficacy of programmatic approaches. The future of welfare assessment within zoos and aquariums Will include Population-level evaluations-tracking emerging trends in health and behavior that come from both formal and informal institutional animal reports. Sharing this information, and performing meta-analyses of the data using epidemiological approaches, will become easier with advances in technology and database management software. Identifying welfare "red/green flags" throughout captive populations will provide direction for more focused assessments that will ultimately inform the design of more effective animal care programs. Zoo Biol 28:519-530, 2009. (C) 2009 Wiley-Liss, Inc.