Animal Care and Management at the National Zoo Final Report (2005) / Chapter Skim
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5 Evaluation of the Conservation and Research Center
5 Evaluation of the Conservation and Research Center
Pages 61-70
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Although many of the structures on the site are old, they are well maintained and functional. Staff The CRC program has a total of about 90 scientific, animal-caretaker, administrative, and maintenance staff, of whom about two-thirds are assigned to the Front Royal site, and the remainder to the Rock Creek Park site.
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CURRENT STATE OF CRC The committee's evaluation of the CRC facility was conducted by assessing the same aspects of animal management and welfare that were assessed at the Rock Creek Park facility, as detailed in the interim report, including: animal care and management, animal welfare, animal nutrition, recordkeeping, and pest control. Animal Care and Management A head veterinarian and a veterinary technician provide primary veterinary care at CRC (NZP, -CRC written response on 4/12/04 to NRC committee members' queries)
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For example, kangaroos at the Rock Creek Park facility receive annual rabies and tetanus vaccinations, but the kangaroos at the CRC facility do not receive any vaccinations; all birds at the Rock Creek Park facility receive an annual vaccination against West Nile virus, and waterfowl also receive an annual botulism vaccination, but birds at the CRC facility do not receive any vaccinations. It is important that the preventive-medicine protocols at the CRC and Rock Creek Park facilities be developed in coordination or that quarantine practices for transferred animals be established, as animals (such as tree kangaroos)
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the gap in the records occurred when the animal was transferred to the Rock Creek Park facility for 2 years. A similar problem with lapses in the medical records was also apparent in the committee's review of medical records for recent animal deaths at the CRC (see Chapter 4)
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Findings and Recommendations Findings: · The preventive medicine program currently in place for the animal collection at CRC is appropriate. · In a random review of medical records from the CRC, as well as the review of recent animal deaths at the CRC, there was evidence that veterinary staff at the CRC have not been adhering to a preventive-medicine program.
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. In 1985, an Animal Welfare Committee located at the Rock Creek Park facility was established to address concerns with animals housed at the Rock Creek Park facility (NZP, Marcellini memo, November 16, 1994)
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The revised General Memorandum, the submission of an assurance to the National Institutes of Health by the Smithsonian Institution, recent documented semiannual inspections (Smithsonian Institution, Evans letter to Potkay, March 31, 2004) , and efforts to provide the appropriate training to IACUC members (NZP, Roberts memo, April 27, 2004; NZP response to the NAS committee on requested items, May 5, 2004)
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The Rock Creek Park facility commissary is responsible for acquisition of all routine and specialty food items for approved diets for the CRC collection except for hay (alfalfa, timothy, and orchard grass) , bamboo, and suckling laboratory mice, which are raised at CRC.
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The Rock Creek Park facility and the CRC facility MedARKS systems are not integrated but are expected to become so when the Zoological Information Management System is adopted. Unless animals are transferred between the Rock Creek Park facility and CRC, medical records are not shared.
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· The CRC should transition to new recordkeeping systems in parallel with the Rock Creek Park facility. Pest Control The zoo pest-control officer is responsible for pest control at both the Rock Creek Park facility and CRC under the supervision of the head of the Pathology Department of the zoo but with the head veterinarian having local responsibility.
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