As zoo and aquarium staff around the world adjust to working in shifts and taking some administrative work off-site, our members are asking for help with "Provisional" data entry. This setting allows a team member to enter animal husbandry or…
In this guest post, ZSL Zoological Registrar Hannah Jenkins addresses the changing role of zoo registrars, from recording day-to-day events to conducting the data analytics that inform species conservation worldwide. By Hannah Jenkins, Zoological Registrar, Zoological Society of London “And…
The Association of Zoos and Aquariums Institutional Records Keeping course this week shared best practices in capturing -- and using - information critical to caring for individual animals and groups of species. Participants included curators, registrars, keepers, and veterinarians, from zoos…