ZIMS at Work: ZOO LODZ Curator of Primates and Small Mammals demonstrates impact of enrichment (Video)
LODZ Zoo curator of primates and small mammals and ZIMS administrator Uljana Kalazny talks about enrichment programs for callitrichids.
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.
Species360 Insights Program: Harvard University researchers look to ZIMS for essential data on species
Researchers at the Human Evolutionary Biology Department, Harvard University, have joined the Species360 Research Partner Program. As part of the program, the department’s Capellini Lab plans to use data from Species360's Zoological Information Management System (ZIMS) to study connections between genotype (genetic makeup) and phenotype (observable characteristics) in mammals, including nonhuman primates and humans.
Researchers use Species360 data to study reproduction in primates
For the study published in the specialist journal "Biological Reviews", researchers evaluated the birthdays of 132,712 monkeys of 141 different species using Species360 data. A study published today in Biological Reviews, and using Species360 data, provides new insight to reproduction…