Feeding the Animals at the Smithsonian's National Zoo
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- Опубликовано: 13 сен 2024
- Mike Maslanka, head nutritionist at the Smithsonian's National Zoo, talks about what it takes to feed 2000 animals from 400 different species 365 days a year. Each one receives a diet specially designed by National Zoo nutritionists that not only meets their nutrient needs but also encourages them to employ their natural feeding behaviors.
The Zoo's commissary is one of the world's largest zoo commissaries and is about half an acre in size.
In all, 13 people make up the Zoos nutrition team. Two members of the team are certified nutritionists. Of all 220 zoo members of the Association of Zoos and Aquariums, only 11 have nutritionists, and the National Zoo has two! But thats not the only thing that sets the Zoo apart. The National Zoo is also the only zoo that makes all of its own hay, which is grown at CRC.
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these animals eat better than i do lol
Having the animals forage for their food also keeps them from getting bored or depressed.
wow your a rocket scientist
Keith Parks
Ha!
+Oh Dear kinda common sense
Keith Parks
For thinking, feeling, people, you are right.
But in the not so distant past, zoo's didn't give a damn about the animals' quality of life. They were just money makers. And in a great number of smaller zoos, private zoos, and in many third world countries, they still do not give a damn.
Enrichment activities for zoo animals is a relatively new concept.
Here's an example. In 1994, a popular polar bear at the NYC Central Park Zoo began spending his days swimming non-stop laps in the pool in his enclosure. He would swim for twelve hours at a stretch, every day.
Visitors became concerned and complained to the Zoo that something was very wrong with their prize polar bear.
Zoologists deduced he might be suffering from an Obsessive Compulsive Disorder and needed medication. He was given Prozac.
Under pressure from the public, they called in animal behavioralists, at a cost of $25,000, who examined and observed him.
The expert's "common sense" conclusion: He was bored.
The experts recommended enrichment activities like hiding his food, putting special treats inside objects that would offer him a challenge to retrieve, changing his diet, providing a larger more natural enclosure complete with a jacuzzi, adding new features and sometimes moving things around (sort of like rearranging the furniture).
Well, what do you know? The OCD non-stop swimming of laps lessened greatly. And the popular polar bear was happier. And the visitors were happier. And the zoo's brilliant success was heralded throughout the land, featured on popular TV shows, the national news, books, and in serious news magazines.
Enrichment activities for zoo animals finally came to the fore.
Under public scrutiny, major zoos that fell short in this area publicly vowed to adopt this revolutionary concept.
So what may seem like common sense hasn't always been so common after all and is still a problem.
So that's why I mentioned it. Hopefully, someone would read my little post, scratch his head, and have a "Eureka" moment. As in, "Maybe we should do something like this for our animals, too."
Oh Dear this is how it is. Wild animals are meant to be free. Certain people help animals who no longer survive in the wild. Of course there bored, not to mention miserable, and depressed. There HELD CAPTIVE. FREEDOM FIXES THAT
Wow, the responsibility of these professionals is high. These animals need feeding and rely on that provision of food from a third party, each day.
These animals eat better then my family does,ha! :D
+Sammy Lane Only when the camera is rolling.
Bwahahah
Who knew animals eating could be so interesting! At my. primary school jelly told me I was a nerd, CANT WAIT TO SHOW HERE THIS!
man those anmalles are treat so well.
The Animals are eating a Much Healthier diet than Most Humans.
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the animals of the zoo here recives better diet , thet get food from the visitors XD
Is this better than getting a gerbil plz I need advise
Erin Pile yes gerbils are smart
Awesomeness!
Just curious how much it costs to feed all these animals?
what about the Lions, Tigers, and the other meat eating animals?
well feed them meat
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They need to be feeding people in America! At least the kids
@ 0:28 that's the greater tenrec's food.
dont animals have to put up with CODEX ALIMENTARIUS / NUTRICIDE in conjunction with monsanto ??
When i go to the zoo, the only excited animals I see are people. The wild life in the zoos is literally exhausted. I enjoyed my time at the zoo, but I didn't like how the animals were depressed. I think we need to look at new architecture to see if we can build more "open" and habitat like zoos rather than scraping 2 or 3 things together and calling it natural habitat.
@The Magic Twister animals can get depression from lack of stimulation, and many zoo habitats are nothing more than glass cages that don't adequately meet their needs.
@@user-nh8lu8qh5f Ok fine lets shut down all zoos and release all the animals in the wild so they van get fucking slaughtered by poachers...At least theyd be free right!?!? Fuck off
I know that guy
Yes we are my dad I am going to have phone my dad for his two days off and he has one day off tomorrow and today we had for my dad today
at 1:53 HOLY SHIT HARAMBAE IS ALIVE
Me and my sister and my dad be to gather and I I love my
Me and my dad and my sis after
Meanwhile in Africa.. .
Silverback looks like he would like Twinkie
Hi what are you doing today because I’m having a fun time and text me back and tell me what time is it are you watch the race game game
PLEASE NO JIBBER JABBER GORILLAS ONLY.
o kurwa, mike maslanka XD
they feeding animals they need to be feeding the people in Africa
aiyanna owens
That's not their job
Im kinda a ahole lmao i worked at a zoo well i was in highschool but i also am a yearly hunter and fisher lmao
Do you hunt to eat or just for fun?
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J97u
All animals should be returned to the wild and all zoos closed.
@timothyomara6303Yeah, my father works there as a geneticist and a conservationist, he has contributed a lot to wildlife conservation.
Zoo more like Jail for animals to suffer
Billie jean ! x""D
REPORT!
Did he really say commissary? Because The Thing about commissary is exact relation to being in jail. And that's the only time I've heard ever heard of commissary, so basically hes admitting that hes forcing them to eat what he makes them eat and. He calls a commissary that might as that every animal might as well be in jail.
I'm sorry to say, brother, but you don't make them do nothing. They like their leafy greens. I don't know why you're smiling.
Having the animals forage for their food also keeps them from getting bored or depressed.
Oh Dear
Why did you make the same comment twice