Katelyn Mucha, Author at Species360

New in ZIMS for Studbooks: Managed Groups gives studbook managers insight to group dynamics

The Managed Groups feature is used to track which animals have been or are currently housed together. This information provides better insight to how species are being managed, what is working, and how changes can impact populations – especially when institutions hold more than one group.

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Reproductive Tools: ZIMS dashboard provides insight used to manage populations

The highest requested feature in a 2021 user survey, the new ZIMS for Studbooks dashboard provides detailed reproductive information that can be used to improve management decisions and conservation of a species.

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ZIMS for Studbooks: Get new insight to the age of regional and international populations

Species360's ZIMS for Studbooks team introduces an age structure tool to view animals by age and to quickly see the number of males and females by age.

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Do you keep a studbook for animals in your collection? Institutional studbooks will move to ZIMS by 2022

Now that regional associations are done migrating, we are focused on migrating member institution studbooks. Our goal is to migrate all member institution studbooks to ZIMS by end of 2021.

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New in ZIMS for Studbooks: Global search identifies collective breeding programs by species, IUCN status, and more

January 30, 2021
Katelyn Mucha
Conservation, Product News, Studbooks, ZIMS
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Species360 releases ZIMS for Studbooks global search tool -- allowing associations, species survival programs, zoos, and aquariums to identify studbooks and managers supporting collaborative breeding programs.

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How many studbooks are being kept for critically endangered species? For birds? ZIMS for Studbooks

As a global community, we are now managing over 1,060 studbooks using ZIMS for Studbooks. The transition to an integrated, secure, standardized solution helps to improve access to information that is critical to managing populations, their genetics and welfare, now and in the future.

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New! ZIMS supports members’ institutional studbooks

September 24, 2020
Katelyn Mucha
Blog, Studbooks, ZIMS
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Katelyn Mucha is Product Owner, ZIMS for Studbooks, Species360. She is also an Adjunct Population Biologist for the Association of Zoos and Aquariums' (AZA) Population Management Center. Are you managing a head start program, a release program, or a breeding…

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Coming in March! ZIMS for Husbandry will include Studbook IDs

Requested by studbook keepers and registrars alike, ZIMS for Husbandry will automatically display Studbook IDs in the Husbandry animal identifier grid.

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ZIMS for Studbooks the first year

April 24, 2018
Katelyn Mucha
Blog, ZIMS
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Milestones to remember on our first Studbooks anniversary It's been an eventful year for ZIMS for Studbooks! Today marks one year since we released our revolutionary new Studbooks module. With the release of ZIMS for Studbooks we connected Studbooks data…

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7 key features of ZIMS for Studbooks Overlays

April 12, 2018
Katelyn Mucha
Blog, ZIMS
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Improved data analysis for Studbook users Species360 is happy to announce the release of overlay functionality within the ZIMS for Studbooks module! The ZIMS for Studbooks Overlay functionality allows the users to apply assumptive data to their studbooks and export…

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