ROTTERDAM ZOO INFO

Rotterdam Zoo is committed to the concept of coordinated captive breeding programmes as a means of maintaining viable, self-sustaining populations of endangered species in captivity. As a result the zoo participates in numerous EEPs (European Endangered Species breeding Programme) and other breeding programmes. In addition members of the zoo personnel coordinate seven EEPs and compile two European and one international studbook as well as chairing two of the European TAGs (Taxon Advisory Groups). In this part of the Rotterdam Zoo website we will make a number of the documents arising out of these activities, available to a our colleagues in other zoos.

This site contains:

• Red panda studbook
• EEP Asian Elephant studbook 
• Husbandry guidelines for elephants
• Veterinary guidelines for reproduction-related management
  in captive female elephants
• European studbook for the giraffe EEP
• EEP Komodo Dragon Studbook
• European Studbook (ESB) for Crowned Pigeons
• EAZA Visayan Warty Pig Studbook
• Animal inventory
• Quarantine protocols for fishes

• Red Panda Studbook (pdf):
  This file is the complete studbook listing for all red pandas that have been recorded in the studbook. Animals are listed according to date of birth. The list is complete up until 31 December 2008.
• Births, deaths and transfers (pdf): 
  This file contains all the births, deaths and transfers of red pandas which occurred betwee 1 January and 31 December 2008. Separate lists are provided for each of the two subspecies. animals are listed according to studbook number.

• The latest Asian Elephant EEP Studbook, currentness November 2008 (2 files):
  - Asian Elephant Historical 2008 (pdf containing all animals in the Studbook)
  - Asian Elephant Current 2008 (pdf) (Living Elephants in European Institutions)
• Husbandry Guidelines for Elephants (pdf)
• Veterinary guidelines (pdf) for reproduction-related management in captive female elephants by Willem Schaftenaar and Thomas B. Hildebrandt (Elephant TAG veterinary advisors)

• European studbook for the giraffe EEP 2008 - edition 6a, april 2009 (pdf)

• Historical and Current EEP population as of January 2010 (pdf)

Goura cristata - Goura scheepmakeri - Goura victoria 

• Studbook nr. 1 before 1988 (pdf):
  taxonomy and distribution, reproduction, evolution of necropsies, general information on studbook listings
• Studbook nr. 3 1988-1994 (pdf):
  data, husbandry & research section
  (behaviour, handrearing, nutrition)
• Studbook nr. 4 1995-1999 (pdf):
  data and information on nutrition in the wild, ecology of crowned pigeons, status and threats in Papua New Guinea
• Studbook nr. 5, December 2008 (pdf):
  current and a historical listing

Handrearing protocols for Crowned Pigeons:

• Crowned pigeon Hand rearing Bristol (.doc)
• Crowned pigeon Handrearing Mulhouse (.pdf)
• Crowned pigeon Handrearing Banham Zoo (.doc)

• EAZA Visayan Warty Pig Studbook (pdf):This file is the complete studbook listing for all Visayan warty pigs held in Europe. Animals are listed according to studbook number. The list is complete up until 31 December 2008.
• Changes 2009/2010 (pdf):
  This file contains all the births, deaths and transfers of Visayan warty pigs which occurred betwee 1 January and 01 October 2009. Animals are listed according to studbook number. This file contains a glossary with the names and addresses of collections holding this species.

• Animal inventory 2007 (pdf 1,5 Mb)

• Research (pdf) on the use and extensiveness of quarantine protocols among
  EUAC and EAZA members. September 2006.