TY  - GEN
T1  - Fundamental Knowledge on Forgotten Species
A2  - Descovich, Kris
LA  - eng
PB  - MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute
YR  - 2023
UL  - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/doab-20.500.12854-100010
AB  - Dear Colleagues, Zoological institutions contribute a large amount of fundamental and applied knowledge on a diverse array of animal species. Despite this significant contribution, research conducted within zoos or other captive wildlife facilities has historically been skewed toward charismatic mammals, which comprise only a small proportion of the species that are held in captive collections. Modern zoos play an important role in animal welfare, conservation, and environmental education; therefore, this shortfall in knowledge may have large, unseen, and negative impacts on these “forgotten species”. Hypothesis-driven, experimental research plays a key role in filling these knowledge gaps; however, other avenues of data collection exist which may be equally important. These include observational data (collected without experimental interventions), operational data (data collected within the general management activities of a facility), and incidental data (data collected for one purpose which may reveal further important information when explored in more detail). These unpublished datasets may provide fundamental information on species for which comparatively little is known.
SN  - 9783036572239
SN  - 9783036572222
KW  - Bucovus leadbeateri
KW  - Bucerotidae
KW  - mirror
KW  - carcass feeding
KW  - spread of participation index
KW  - amphibian
KW  - behaviour
KW  - diet
KW  - nitrogenous waste
KW  - welfare
KW  - zoo research
KW  - behavior
KW  - environmental enrichment
KW  - evidence-based
KW  - husbandry
KW  - reptile
KW  - lizard
KW  - zoo
KW  - captive
KW  - cognition
KW  - play
KW  - tree kangaroo
KW  - zoos
KW  - activity budget
KW  - enclosure use
KW  - Dendrolagus
KW  - understudied
KW  - alligator
KW  - animal welfare
KW  - behavioral observation
KW  - comparative
KW  - social behavior
KW  - Psitaccidae
KW  - ultraviolet light
KW  - artificial lighting
KW  - T5 lamps
KW  - vision
KW  - red panda
KW  - maternal behaviour
KW  - elasmobranch
KW  - sharks
KW  - space use
KW  - ZooMonitor
KW  - cusimanse
KW  - Crossarchus obscurus
KW  - AWAG
KW  - welfare assessment
KW  - carnivore
KW  - Verreaux’s eagle owl
KW  - Bubo lacteus
KW  - macroplastic
KW  - litter
KW  - digit constriction
KW  - cooperation
KW  - loose-string task
KW  - rodents
KW  - synchronized actions
KW  - cooperative breeding
KW  - pair bonds
KW  - tortoise
KW  - diversity index
KW  - enrichment
KW  - ethogram
KW  - n/a
KW  - thema EDItEUR::G Reference, Information and Interdisciplinary subjects::GP Research and information: general
KW  - thema EDItEUR::P Mathematics and Science::PS Biology, life sciences
KW  - thema EDItEUR::P Mathematics and Science::PS Biology, life sciences::PSV Zoology and animal sciences
ER  -