Commissary Resource Center

The most appropriate diet for your animal is one that accounts for its nutritional, husbandry, behavioral, and clinical needs as well as individual preferences.

Therefore, we do not publish “standard” diets.  Instead, we provide resources to help nutritionists develop diets.

We strongly encourage you to consult with or hire a zoo nutritionist to develop an appropriate diet plan for your animal.

The information included on this site represents a variety of sources, ranging from rigorously peer-reviewed to single author, popular press, internal-use documents, and everything in between. Use your critical evaluation skills when employing any information herein (Ullrey 1995).