Training Objectives

Completing this module will allow you to understand why zoos carry out breeding programs, appreciate how the International Species Inventory System (ISIS) standardizes zoo breeding records and how the pedigrees of zoo animals are maintained.

Enabling Objectives

  1. Appreciate that unlimited supplies of wild species are no longer available to stock zoos.
  2. Be aware that the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES) to which Canada is a signatory, places restrictions on the importing or exporting of species of plants or animals that appear in the Appendices of rare or endangered species.
  3. Recognize that zoos need breeding programs to replace stock and to make stock available for sale or trading.
  4. Understand the need for limiting reproduction of certain species in the zoo and be aware of methods in use.
  5. Know the needs of animals about to give birth and conditions that optimize survival of newborns.
  6. Be sensitive to conditions that make hand rearing of newborns necessary and requirements that need to be met to make hand rearing successful