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3 Record Keeping
Pages 47-54

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From page 47...
... . As with any facility responsible for the care of its residents, modern zoos require effective systems for gathering relevant information from the field, processing it in ways that provide maximum value, and presenting it in a form that is easy for staff to use in implementing appropriate actions to achieve effective animal management and disease control programs (Morris, 1991)
From page 48...
... Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) recently announced a proposed regulation of medical record keeping for research facilities, dealers, and exhibitors (Docket No.
From page 49...
... . There are only two formally established regional groups of animal records keepers: the Australasian Animal Records Keeping Specialist Advisory Group and the North American Zoo Registrars Association.
From page 50...
... The National Zoo generates many types of animal management and husbandry records, including · Keeper logs ­ generated by the zoo keepers to document daily observations of each animal. · Curator reports ­ generated by the curator, usually weekly, to highlight significant events noted in the daily keeper logs of that week.
From page 51...
... Patterns of inconsistent record keeping and archiving were found in keeper logs, curator reports, nutritionist records, and medical records. The National Zoo has acknowledged errors in record keeping for a number of animals (African lion [Accession # 108413]
From page 52...
... . Currently at the National Zoo the information management infrastructure is set up so that daily information about an animal is included in the keeper log; the curator summarizes this information into a weekly curator report; medical information is contained within the MedARKS medical records; and nutritional information is contained within the nutritionist records, which are still being developed.
From page 53...
... . Finding 5: The National Zoological Park lacks a comprehensive information management system for animal husbandry and management records, which results in inconsistent record keeping and practices of alteration in medical records weeks or years after events.
From page 54...
... In addition to the ARKS software, an entire system was developed around this software to describe how a zoo could standardize record keeping and use the ARKS system most efficiently and to the fullest extent. This information is contained in the document "Standards for Data Entry and Maintenance of North American Zoo and Aquarium Animal Records Databases: (Earnhardt et al., 1998)


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