ANIMAL WELFARE
Research on animal behavior and welfare
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ANIMAL KEEPER
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RICERCATORE COLLABORATORE
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Research on animal welfare in zoos is often compromised by small sample sizes: if on the one hand it is useful to monitor different species for long periods of time in order to see their behavioral changes over time, on the other hand it is essential to increase the number of animals monitored, involving the greatest number of zoological institutions in a particular research, to also observe individual variability.
The Zoom Foundation is carrying out several multizoo studies on different species in order to support organizations for the protection of the same species in nature with data.
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It was co-financed n. 1 scholarship for attending the PhD course in Biological Sciences and Applied Biotechnology cycle XXXIX, lasting 3 years, on the following research topic: “Interactive singing as promoter of individual acoustic rhythms”
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Studies activated in other European zoos
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On felines: behavioral and social dynamics in groups of felines in a controlled environment: feline species have for years been considered mostly solitary, with the exception of lions. Recent monitoring technologies such as camera traps and radio tracking are allowing us to document more and more exceptions to this hypothesis, showing that not only lions are social cats. The reduction of habitats is in fact leading more and more individuals to aggregate and/or remain together even as adults, that is, after the juvenile phase, the phase in which they generally stay together. The objective is therefore to study the sociality and behavior of different species of felines (today little investigated), thanks to the study of groups present in different zoological structures – in collaboration with Giovanni Quintavalle Pastorino Arbocò
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On penguins: according to the research priorities on African penguins (Spheniscus demersus), a highly threatened and rapidly declining species, in collaboration with the SANCCOB and various national universities, the Zoom Foundation is carrying out the following research:
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Continuous study on different behavioral dynamics, also in relation to environmental dynamics, in collaboration with various academic and research bodies with the support of EAZA (European association of Zoo and Aquaria) and the Department of Pharmaceutical Science and Technology – Ornella Abollino, Agnese Giacomino
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Study on aspergillosis in collaboration with the University of Turin – Department of Veterinary Sciences –
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Study on malaria in collaboration with the University of Bari and the Pistoia zoo - Antonio Camarda
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Study on the vocalizations of African penguins and the different dynamics in collaboration with the University of Turin – Department of Life Sciences and Systems Biology – Livio Favaro
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On lemurs: behavioral and reproductive dynamics, in collaboration with the University of Turin - Department of Life Sciences and Systems Biology and the Department of Veterinary Sciences Patrizia Ponzio - Elisabetta Macchi
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