Incorporating the science of nutrition into the management of captive animals.
This workshop presented a toolbox of techniques that nutritionists, veterinarians, and animal staff can use to assess and quantify the nutritional health and welfare of their animals. As part of the new AZA standard 1.5, accredited institutions must follow a written process for assessing animal welfare. Nutrition is considered one of the “5 freedoms” (freedom from hunger and thirst), the... This workshop was held at the 2019 NAG/AAZV conference and was hosted by Heidi Bissell, Katie Sullivan, Erin Kendrick, and Mike Maslanka.
The files from the workshop are available here:
Some of the above files are available as editable MS Word documents: