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2009 Conservation Impact Report

Introduction

AZA-accredited and serve as conservation centers that are concerned about ecosystem health, take responsibility for survival, contribute to research, conservation, and education, and provide society the opportunity to develop personal connections with the in their care. Whether breeding and re-introducing , rescuing and rehabilitating sick and injured animals, maintaining far-reaching educational and outreach programs or supporting and conducting in-situ and ex-situ research and field conservation projects, zoos and aquariums play a vital role in maintaining our planet’s diverse and natural while engaging the public to appreciate and participate in conservation.

In 2009, 127 of AZA’s 238 accredited institutions and certified-related facilities contributed data for the 2009 Conservation Impact Report. A summary of the 1,762 conservation efforts these institutions participated in within ~60 countries is provided. In addition, a list of individual projects is broken out by state and zoological institution.

This report was compiled by Shelly Grow (AZA Conservation ) as well as Jamie Shockley and Katherine Zdilla (AZA Volunteer Interns). This report, along with those from previous , is available on the AZA Web site at: http://www.aza.org/annual-report-on-conservation-and-science/.

2009 AZA Conservation Projects

Grevy's Trust National/International

Conservation Support CANADA Temaiken Foundation Health in Harmony Orangutan Conservation of Osununu and Forest Stewardship Natural Reserve Project Program de Granby Lowland tapir (Tapirus terrestris) Enhancing the Conservation of Hornbill Adoption Program Conservation Project the Geoffroy’s Pied Colobus (Colobus vellerosus) Hutan Orang-utan and Elephant Maned (Chrysocyon in Brong-Ahafo Region, Ghana Conservation Support brachyurus) Conservation Project Follow-up on Laying and Masked Bobwhite Quail Species the Use of Pike River by the Recovery Plan Native Butterfly and Orchids Spiny Softshell Turtle Conservation Project (Apalone spinifera) Mexican Grey Wolf lupus baileyi – Adaptive Parana pine (Araucaria Re-Establishment of the Spiny Management Plan angustifolia) Ecosystem Softshell Turtle in Quebec Participation Conservation Project Research Project on Mandrill's Mount Graham Red Squirrel Behavior at Granby Zoo Propagation and Release Program BERMUDA Research Project on Mandrill's Behavior and the Relation with Narrow-headed Garter Snake Cortisol at Granby Zoo during Captive Husbandry and Enrichment Sessions Management Bermuda Museum and Zoo The Effect of Visitor Presence on National Park System Visioning BAMZ/BZS Research Grants and Captive Amur in Project Support Zoological Parks Native Husbandry Bermuda Project Wild Inventory at Granby & Release Program Zoo and Comparison with Bermuda Project Other Parks around the Town Sonoran Recovery of Granby and Field Support Bermuda Killifish Project Sonoran Pronghorn Research Bermuda Marine Moorings Support Initiative Western Governors Association Bermuda Reef ARIZONA Climate and Wildlife Corridor Assessment and Mapping and Connectivity Projects (BREAM) Phoenix Zoo Bermuda Turtle Project Be Outdoors Arizona (BOAZ) Reid Park Zoo Diamondback terrapin project Black-footed Propagation Elephant Manager's Conference - & Release Program Houston Education Program California Condor Veterinary Fecal Hormone Monitoring and Internship Program Healthy Support Pregnancy Detection in Polar Ion analyzer for National Chiricahua Aquarium to improve coral Headstarting and Release Investigating fluctuations in husbandry at Bermuda Program Alopecia/Dermatitis in Captive Aquarium Polar Bears Cienega Watershed Partnership Madagascar Learning Centre National Elephant Center Desert Pupfish Breeding and Marine Wildlife Rescue and Release Program New Foundation Rehabilitation Gila Topminnow Assurance Olfactory Capabilities in Red-eared slider project Species Program Reference to Detection of Cycling Female Polar Bears TRACKS development

3 2009 AZA Conservation Projects

Polar Bears International Phase I of the Elephant Survival Center - (TNEC) the National Species Composition and Rain Forest Parking Meter Elephant Center Abundances of Nearshore Reef on the Long Beach Tarangire Elephant Project Rainforest Alliance and Huntington Beach Offshore Petroleum Platforms Riddle's Elephant Sanctuary – AAZK White Abalone Recruitment ARKANSAS Study SANCOBB - South African Foundation for the Conservation of Coastal Birds Birch Aquarium at Scripps Appalachian Center Consortium Institute of Oceanography Arkansas Natural Heritage Establishing a DNA Sequence Commission The Diane Fossey Gorilla Fund Database for the Marine Fish International Fauna of the Gulf of California, Arkansas Statewide Raptor Mexico - Live specimen Awareness Community The Mount Kenya collection Projects Repatriation Project

Bear Trust International Turpentine Creek Wildlife Refuge Point Museum Bowling for Rhinos Coyote Point Beach Clean up WCS/Mbeli Bai Study Crisis Taskforce Pacific Frog (Hyla regilla) Wildlife SOS - Garden Project Conservation Fund (CCF)

Chimp Haven CALIFORNIA Happy Hollow Zoo Chimp-n-Sea Wildlife Advance Force via Fund - Kibale Direct Community Fuel Wood Aquarium of the Pacific Project Abalone Surveys with California Balikpapan Orangutan Society, Department of Fish and Game USA (BOSUSA) Conservation Breeding Specialist Group (CBSG) Development of Molecular Belize Audubon Society Techniques for Monitoring Conservation Endowment Fund Demographic Structure of C.A.N.N.E.D. Project (CEF) Bering Sea Populations Cockscomb Basin Wildlife El Valle Amphibian Conservation Sanctuary outreach education Center (EVACC) Evaluation of RNA Extraction programs Methods and Its Applicability Heifer International for Wildlife Species E-Waste Collection

International Bear Association In-Situ Measurement of LEED Certification for Happy Swimming in Hollow Park & Zoo International Elephant Natural Environments Foundation Return the Call of the Wild Cell Kelp Forest Monitoring with Phone Recycle Program LEAP - Wong Si Te Santa Monica Baykeepers

Madagascar Fauna Group Monitoring Presence and Activity within Alamitos The Living Desert Orangutan Outreach Bay Channel and the San Amazing : on Gabriel River the Edge Pan African Sanctuary Alliance (PASA) Pink and Green Abalone Channel Island Recovery Translocation Studies with Planning Partners in Conservation - AAZK California Department of Fish - Parking Meter and Game Climate Change and the California Deserts Conference Sandtiger Scoliosis Project

4 2009 AZA Conservation Projects

Desert Pupfish ex-situ refugia Grevy’s Zebra Conservation management Hornbill Nest Project – Teen Wild Guides Hornbill Research Foundation Desert Tortoise Adoption Program Jane Goodall Institute International Rescue Research Center Invasive Cactus Moth Survey Kibale Community Fuel Wood Project International Invasive Riparian Herpetofauna Foundation in the Coachella Valley Lubee Bat Conservancy Mabula Ground Hornbill Mecca Aster Propagation and Mountain Foundation Conservation Project Habitat Restoration Project Namibian Elephant Research Madagascar Fauna Group Niger Carnivore Project National Elephant Center Pan African Assoc. of Zoological Rabies Vaccine Effectiveness in Gardens and Aquarium and Gray PAWS Botanic Gardens

Sahara Conservation Fund Predator Conservation Alliance Riparian Brush Recovery Program Sonoran Pronghorn Capture and Project Golden Frog Release Project Sahara Conservation Fund Project Tamarin Southwestern Gray Wolf Distinct Validation of Blood Lactate Population Segment Recovery Saba Conservation Levels in Flamingos Planning Center Zoo Conservation Outreach Saiga Conservation Fund (Teen Group (ZCOG) Wild Guides)

Oakland Zoo Matters Saving Sandhill Cranes (Lecture) Safari West Amboseli Elephant Research Save the Elephants Cercopan Project Saving Wild Tigers Cheetah Conservation Fund American Bird Conservancy (CCF) Ventana Wildlife Society Animals Asia Defenders of Wildlife Western Pond Turtle Head Start ARCAS Environmental Program EarthMatters Education World Wildlife Fund (Teen Wild Fish and Wildlife The Ares Project Guides) Conservation

Bushmeat Crisis Task Force Martinez Beavers

Butterfly Conservation Initiative Sacramento Zoo Matanya’s Hope Adopt an Acre/Rainforest Meter Sanctuary and Project Lifelion Wildlife Conservation Trust Amphibian Ark Bundongo Snare Removal World Wildlife Fund (WWF) Conservation Breeding Support Chimp Haven Group (CBSG)

Coevolution Institute Conservation of Endangered Pangolin with Local Andean Conservation Speaker Series Community Participation Research, Building Capacity in Elephant Seismic Research DNA Sample Donations and Conservation Fund Bay Giant Garter Snake Fecundity Reintroduction of the San Area Project Study Clemente Loggerhead Shrike

Fund for the Giant Garter Snake Tracking Comparing Mineral and Vitamin Project E Concentrations in Hand- Hornbill Nest Project

5 2009 AZA Conservation Projects

Reared and Dam-Reared the Creation of Community Infants Forest Reserves Sequoia Park Zoo Developing Captive Breeding Chilean Flamingo Conservation Breeding Success of Cinereous Program for Yuskers in Sri Program Vultures in Ikh Nart, Mongolia Lanka Rainforest Parking Meter Caribbean Flamingo Wildlife Enclosure and Pasture Utilization Research Expedition in El, of the Animals in the South Yersiniosis as a Zoonotic Disease Cuyo Mexico African Exhibit in Captive Wildlife Chemical Communication and Improving the Genetic of African Management of the Fennec Wild in Northern Fox Species Survival Plan Steinhart Aquarium at Botswana

Native for Native California Academy of Citizen Science Wildlife Americans Program Science Monitoring Program in Batangas Biodiversity Center Colorado Palm Conservation Initiative Conservation Education Conflicts Between Grevy’s Periparturitional Behavior, Programming and in Kenya Development and Infrasound of Captive African Elephants Coral Conservation Project Conservation and Management Implications of Blakiston's Fish Social Learning in Captive Long Term Propagation and Owl Resource Selection in African Elephants (Loxodonta Display of Lygodactylus Primorye, Russia africana africana) williamsi Conservation of Bat The Effects of Sociobiological Long term Propagation and Assemblages in Hanoi city, Factors on Reproductive Display of bandensis Success of Captive Zoo Animals Steinhart Aquarium AZA Conservation of C. picturata Conservation Program Turtles in Vietnam Tree Kangaroo Conservation Participation Program (TKCP) Conservation of Threatened Plant Species in Huu Lien

COLORADO Santa Barbara Zoological Determining Urban Bird Numbers Through the Gardens Audubon Society’s Annual Amazon Conservation Team Christmas Bird Count Bat Conservation / White-Nose California Condor Recovery Syndrome Developing a Model for Local Program Management of Protected Panama Amphibian Rescue and Areas in Mongolia: Ikh Nart Direct Donation - CES Adopt A Conservation Nature Reserve Reef and Conservation Parking Meter Programs Wild African Vulture Developing Assisted Conservation Reproductive Technologies for International Elephant Cinereous Vultures Foundation Disease Threats to Endangered International Snow Leopard Denver Zoological African Wild Dogs in Kenya: Trust Information for Conservation Gardens Conservation and Asian Elephant in-situ Based in Distribution and Landscape Use Captive Breeding Program of the Andean Bear

Los Padres National Forest Herp Behavioral Ecology and Ecology and Conservation of Project Conservation of the Grey- Shanked Douc Monkey in the National Elephant Center Central Highlands of Vietnam Ecology and Conservation of Wild Bactrian in Zoo Conservation Outreach Biodiversity Conservation in Mongolia Group (ZCOG) Northwest Ecuador Through

6 2009 AZA Conservation Projects

Ecology and Social Behavior of Support for the International White-Tailed Prairie Dogs Makgadikgadi Brown Wildlife Media Center & Film Project Festival, Missoula, MT Effects of Habitat Degradation and Climate Change in the Malagasy Fish Conservation Support for the IUCN Re- Long-Term Survival of the introduction Specialist Group Volcano Rabbit Medical Evaluation of Free- ranging Primates in Surveys for a Translocation Effects of Habitat Disturbance Madagascar Project of DeLacour's Langurs on Amphibians in Vietnam Menispermaceae Taking Root: The Vision of Elephant Surveys and Training in Wangari Maathai Film National Park, Mongolian Nomadic Screening and Habitat Conservation Trunk Program Restoration Project

Endangered Black Bear Ecology, Orangutan Conservation The Ecology and Conservation Conservation, and Initiative in of Small Carnivores in the Management in the State of Semi-desert Steppes of Sonora, Mexico Conservation Education Mongolia Development in Lake Victoria Establishment of Botanical Training and Capacity Building Gardens in Tam Dao National Population Size, , and for Conservation NGO's in Park, Vietnam Spatial Distribution of the Mongolia Janos Evaluation of Human Witness for Wildlife at Herman Conservation Behavior and Predator-prey Relationship and Gulch Wildlife Corridor in Tonkin Snub-Nose Monkey System Dynamic Study in the Colorado through Patagonia’s Population Status in Northern Central Kalahari Game Freedom to Roam Campaign Vietnam Reserve

Grassland Birds and the Prioritization of ex-situ Ecological Recovery of Bison Conservation Endeavors for Peruvian Amphibians Great Lakes Piping Plover Workshop CONNECTICUT Project in Northern Michigan Project Golden Frog (PGF): A Grevy’s Zebra Conservation Comprehensive, Multi- Mystic Aquarium & Education in Kenya institutional Conservation, Research, and Education Institute for Exploration Ibex Ecology and Conservation Program to Conserve Golden Comparison of the Effect of Frogs in Costa Rica and Jugular Vein Versus Impact of the Human Activity Panama Intervertebral Vascular Plexus and in Blood Collection on the and Resource Partitioning Among Hematologic and Clinical Distribution of Argali Sheep and Chemistry Values in African ( onca) in North in Dornogobi Aimag, Mongolia Penguins (Spheniscus Coast of Jalisco, Mexico demersus) Resource Partitioning by Influence of age on Female Mongolian Hedgehogs Determining the Seasonal Cheetah Fertility and Pattern of in an Reproductive Success Rocky Mountain AAZK Support Adult Male Beluga for the Orangutan Interactions between Wild and Conservancy Gut Passage Rate in Multiple Domestic in East Species of Elasmobranches Africa Rocky Mountain AAZK Support of the Northern Jaguar Project Health and Risk Assessment of Land Use Changes and Impacts Bottlenose on Wildlife in Protected Areas Saiga Population Dynamics and Populations in Charleston, SC Conservation in Kalmykia, Long-term Study of Blue Sheep Russia Intracellular Effects of High and Biology, as Pressure Excursions on Marine Part of a Long-term Alpine Antelope and Human Immune Ecosystem Conservation near Lake Cell Function Victoria Macro-Invertebrates as an Investigating Immune Systems in Indicator of Freshwater Aquatic Animals Quality in Vietnam

7 2009 AZA Conservation Projects

Investigation of the Demography, and Behavior of Physiological, Behavioral and Biodiversity Survey of Giant Forest Birds Vocal Responses of Beluga Panda Reserves in to Stress and Eld’s Reintroduction Implications for Impacts of Bowerbird Systematics, Opsin Thailand Climate Change and Oil and Gene and Mhc Gas Exploration on Health Variation Eld's Deer Conservation

Monitoring Health Breeding Ecology and Endocrinology of Reproduction and Body Condition Population Status of the Island and Stress in the Consuming Different Scrub-Jay Percentages of Mazuri Establishing Assisted Artificial Fish Diet Can Sex Differences in Fecal Reproductive Techniques for Deposition Patterns During Genetic Management in the Monitoring Hematology, Plasma the Reproductive Season Chemistry, Immunology, Biased Noninvasive Population Stress and Molt Hormones Estimates of Small Carnivores? Gabon Biodiversity Program throughout the Molting Period in Penguins Citizen Science Mapping of Genetic Defense Against Natural Resources Disease, Kinship, and Social Rescue and Rehabilitation of Behavior in Captive and Wild Stranded Marine and Community Science Workshop Elephants Sea Turtles along the of Connecticut and Hawaiian Petrels Genetic Variation and Its Shorelines Influence on and Conservation of Przewalski’s Success of African Wild Dogs Use of Rebound Tonometry to Horse in South Africa Diagnose Glaucoma in the Captive California of Elephant Global Tiger Initiative - Spermatozoa Conservation and Development Network Decline of the Rusty Blackbird DISTRICT OF Grassland Restoration Defining Optimal Habitat COLUMBIA Attributes to Facilitate Hepatozoon Parasites in Giant Recovery and Conservation of Pandas Endangered Island Smithsonian National Host Specialization of Avian Determination of Glomerular Malaria and Shifts from Wild Zoological Park Filtration Rate in to Zoo Birds Amazon-GIS Program Developing a Multidisciplinary Impact of Environmental Appalachian Salamander Smithsonian Research Variation on Trophic Conservation Program to Understand and Interactions Mitigate Amphibian Global Conservation Declines Impact of Husbandry Practices on Reproduction and Welfare Assessing and Restoring Giant Developing Clouded Leopard of Columbia Basic Pygmy Panda Habitat in the Qinling and Fishing Breeding Mountains Programs in Thailand Importance of Kinship and Assessing the Relationship Developing Field Hormone Kits Sociality for Conservation between Estrous Cyclicity and for Studying Reproduction Management in Asian Adrenal Function in the and Welfare of Free-ranging Elephants Cheetah ( jubatus) Elephants Interaction of Invasive Species Assessment of the Population Does Group Management of and White-tailed Ceer on Plant and Reproductive Biology of Male Cheetahs (Acinonyx Species Biodiversity Baird's Tapirs in Panama jubatus) Influence Reproductive Fitness? Investigation Into the Egg Behavioral Study of Kori Temperature and Incubation Bustards at the National Ecology and Conservation of Behavior in Captive American Zoological Park Asiatic Wild in Thailand Flamingos (Phoenicopterus ruber) at the National Biodiversity Monitoring and Effects of Climate and Biotic Zoological Park Assessment Program for the Factors on Abundance, PERU LNG project

8 2009 AZA Conservation Projects

Life History and Population Role of Birds in Disease Biology of Orange-crowned Movement Environmental Teaching Warbler Suitcase for the Danau Girang Role of Zoos in the Conservation Field Centre Male Giant Panda Reproduction: of Wild Asian Elephants-- Helping to Breed Through Workshop to Initiate Environmental Teaching with Conservation Network Suitcase for the Dzanga Frozen Sperm Elephant Study Salt Marsh Sparrow Ecology and Maned wolf Conservation Project Conservation Environmental Teaching Suitcase for the Health in Mapping the Distribution of Satellite-tracking Asian Elephant Harmony Ponds and Large Mammals in Movements Inside and Outside Eastern a Fenced Environmental Teaching Suitcases and Soccer/Netball Modeling Nomadic and SECORE: Ex-situ Preservation of Team Uniforms Migratory Movements of Endangered Coral Species Endangered Mongolian Florida Scrub-Jay Demography Using Satellite SI-GEO Large Forest Plot and Dispersal in Restored Tracking and Satellite Landscapes Estimates of Grassland Survey of Predator Mammals Biomass Along Appalachian Trail International Iguana Foundation Membership Fees Molecular and Morphological Starling Behavioral and of Hawaiian Endocrine Cycles Limbe Wildlife Centre Web- Songbird Radiations Camera Project Survey of Predator Mammals Molt Patterns in Captive Kori Along Appalachian Trail Perdido Key Beach Mouse Bustards Breeding Program Ecology and Conservation Monitoring Elephant Support for the Centro Reproduction in Zoo Thailand ex-situ and Ecologico Akumal Sea Turtle Elephants in-situ Conservation Project Project

Ocelot Study in Block 39 in Peru Understanding the Basic Translocation of Florida Scrub- Reproductive Biology of Lions Jay Family Oocyte Cryopreservation in Rare for Management and Biomedical Models Conservation

Ornithogeography of the Using Inhibition to Disney’s Kingdom Southeastern Himalayan Improve Artificial Insemination African Elephant Region in the Clouded Leopard Cryopreservation

Ostrich Recovery Program in Using Geographic Information Analysis of Serum Cortisol and Niger Systems and Remote Sensing Blood Chemistries in Mandrill for Training Wildlife Managers Phylogeography and Population An Investigation of the Genetic Genetics of Using National Elephant Survey Relatedness and Behavior of and Action Plan for Burma Marabou Storks (Leptoptilos Recovery of the Endangered cremeniferus) at Disney's Black-Footed Ferret Weight Monitoring in the Double Animal Kingdom Wattled Cassowary Reintroduction of Przewalski’s Assessing an Alternative Method Horse in , China of Dominance Hierarchy Determination in the Female Reproduction and Nile amphibias Reintroduction of Arid Lands FLORIDA

Antelope in Sub-Saharan Assessing Animal Visibility as a Africa Tool for Enhancing Guest Brevard Zoo Satisfaction Reproductive Biology of Grevy’s Environmental Teaching

Zebra Suitcase for the Acujungal Assessing Dominance and Rehabilitation Center Progression Order in Reproductive Biology of the Antelope Persian Onager Environmental Teaching

Suitcase for the Barrier Island Behavioral Differences in Singly Education Center and Grouped Housed Tigers

9 2009 AZA Conservation Projects

(Panthera tigris) at Disney's African (Loxodonta africana) Impact of Rearing History on the Animal Kingdom Elephant Vocalizations of Male Fairy Bluebirds (Irena puella): Behavioral Observations of Free Disney’s Wildlife Monitoring Implications for Captive Ranging Elephant Populations Program Management and Propagation in Conjunction with the use of Vasectomy as a Method of Documenting the Ontogeny of In-situ Chemical Sedation and Population Control: Does Tunk-Ue in an African Restraint of the South African Sterilization Adversely Affect Elephant Calf Hippopotamus the Behaviors of Elephants? Effects and Variations in Water Intergroup Behavioral Influences Behavioral Monitoring of White Soluble Carbohydrate Levels in Captive Gorillas Rhino in Uganda in Browse Available at Disney's Animal Kingdom Inventory of Herpetofauna on Behavior Monitoring of the Lodge WDW Conservation Area Social Dynamics of 0.6 Tigers Elephant Communication: Investigating Decision-Making Brain Natriuretic Peptide as an Examining the Relationship and Perception in the Eastern Indicator of Cardiac Failure in between Vocalizations, Box Turtle (Terrapene Captive Gorillas with Cardiac Reproductive Status and carolina) Disease Overt Behavior in Captive Female African Elephants Investigation of Parental Characterization of Major Investment and Genetic Histocompatibility Genes in Elephants and Relatedness of Carmine - Elephants eaters (Merops n. nubicus) at Establishing Feeder Disney's Animal Kingdom Colobus Research Colonies in Responses to the Amphibian Crisis in Panama Investigation of Relatedness in Computer Based Delayed- the American Zoo Response Task in Mandrills Evaluating the Education Association's (Mandrillus sphinx) Program at Budongo Forest Species Survival Plan (SSP) Reserve, Uganda Population Conservation of the Cotton-top Tamarin in Colombia Evaluation of Iron Status in Black Key Largo Woodrat: Rhinoceros Development of an Integrated Conserving Uganda’s Forest Captive Propagation Evaluation of Nutritional Status Control Nematodes in Hoofstock of Blue-Striped Grunts Large Carnivore Health Assessment in the Trans Determination of Site Fidelity of Exploring the Relationships Frontier Conservation Area Relocated gopher Tortoises between Behavior, Cortisol with a Focus on African Wild and a Subjective Measure of Dog (Lycaon pictus) and Determining Prolactin Personality in African (Crocuta Concentration in Acyclic Elephants crocuta) Female African Elephants Generation of Metaphase Long-term Social Recognition of Development and Validation of Preparations to Acoustic Signals in Tursiops an Objective Body Condition Anchor the Emerging Genome truncatus Index for African Elephants Assembly of the African (Loxodonta africana) elephant (Loxodonta africana) Multi-species Evaluation of TB for Free-ranging African Development and Validation of a GPS Assessment of East Wildlife Radio-Immuno Assay, Uing Savannah White Rhino Saliva, to Monitor Steroid Movements Vulture Study Concentration in the Komodo Monitor (Varanua Grouping Behavior of Captive Nutrient Composition of Native komodoensis) Hippopotamus amphibius Puerto Rican Algae Consumed by the Puerto Rican Crested Development of LNG as an Hyena Anesthesia and Disease Toad Effective Means of Surveillance Contraception in New World Nutrient Intake of a Gestating Primates Identifying Individual Differences African Elephant Cow: A in Cortisol Production in Comparison of Two Development of Sperm Sexing Elephants (Loxodonta Pregnancies Technology for the Asian Africana; Elephas maximus) (Elephas maximus) and Ostrich Diet

10 2009 AZA Conservation Projects

Pair Compatibility and Breeding Disney’s Living Seas (Chylloscyllium plagiosum) Behavior in Saddle-billed Stork with and without atipamezole Assessing a Tissue Collection reversal Technique for Stable Isotope Peninsular Pronghorn Analysis in Delphinids Translocation Fantasy Island: A Cooperative

Conservation and Education Assessing the Nutrition of the Puerto Rican Crested Toad Diet Project Florida Manatee (Trichechus Analysis manatus latirostris) in a Green Team Captive Setting Reproductive Activity of Pink-

backed Pelicans (Pelecanus Growth, settlement, and post- Chloroquine Kinetics in Water rufescens) settlement survivorship for the

non-native Perna viridis in Discrimination of Humans by the Reproductive Parameters in the Tampa Bay, Florida Bottlenose Dolphin African Elephant

Echoic Discrimination of Shape Little Salt Spring prehistoric Sea Turtle Index Nest Monitoring Features in Bottlenose underwater archaeology (Sub- Program project of Tampa Bay

Historical Wreck Survey / Serum Adiposity Parameters and Reef Restoration through Coral Tampa Bay Submerged Body Condition in Fragment Restocking and Cultural Resource Survey)

Reestablishment of Long- Serum Adiposity Parameters and spined Sea Urchin, Diadema Marine Mammal Stranding Reproductive Problems in antillarum, on Small Patch Network Female White Rhino Reefs near Castaway Cay

North American River Otter Surveillance of Short-tailed The Dynamics of Microbial Rehabilitation Hawk Nest Populations and Immunity in

Fish Mucus Sea Turtle Rehabilitation The Effects of Fertilization on

Nutrient Content of Pasture, The Shark Spine Study Sound, Stress, Sex, and Soil and Water in 3 Savannahs Seahorses at Disney's Animal Kingdom Visual Discrimination of Rotated Lodge Objects by the Bottlenose Spinal Deformities in Captive

Dolphin Sandtiger (Carcharius taurus) The Influence of Diet, and Water Populations Chemistry on Mineral Vocal Matching in Dolphins Composition in the Liver of Captive and Free Ranging Tropical Fish Jacksonville Zoo The Vocal Repertoire of the Key Florida Aquarium Air Potato (Dioscorea bulbifera) Largo Woodrat (Neotoma Aggressive Social Interactions Round Up floridanan smalli) Observed in a Captive Colony of South African Penguins, ALTA Toward a Deeper Understanding Spheniscus demersus Conservation of Urinary Chemical Signals of Musth in African elephants Captive Coral Disease Survey Annual Mid-Winter Shorebird Survey Understanding the Energetic and Caribbean Coral Propagation Nutritional Requirements of Facility (The Coral Farm) Baird's Tapir Project Small at Disney's Animal Kingdom Coral Restoration in the Florida Caribbean Crazy Ant: Keys Using Colonies Derived Development and Vitamin A Supplementation via from Aquacultured Fragments Implementation of an IPM Cricket Dusting: The Effects of Strategy for the Jacksonville Dusting Fed and Fasted Dolphin Photo ID program Zoo Crickets of 3 Sizes Using 2 Different Supplements on Effects of species, capture Cheetah Conservation Fund Nutrient Content technique, and environment (CCF) Support on acidosis among Carcharinid Whooping Crane Conservation Cross River Gorilla Conservation

Evaluating the use of Crystal River Manatee Health medetomidine-ketamine for Assessments immobilization of spotted sharks Epulu Fund

11 2009 AZA Conservation Projects

Eco-Explorer Exposure and Effects of Urban Save the Manatee Club Life Takes Shape Contaminants on Wood Stork Outdoor Adventures Health and Reproduction in Sumatran Rhino Conservation Watching Wildlife Florida The Penguin Rescue Campaign Lion Physiologic Parameters Florida Bat Working Group Tooro Botanical Gardens in Lion TB Vaccine Study Florida Butterfly Monitoring Uganda Network Passive Transfer of Immunity in Wood Stork Banding/Tagging Neonatal Ungulates Florida Panther Captive and Satellite Tracking Management Working Group Pelican Rehabilitation and Wood Stork Rookery Nest Release Florida Panther Rehabilitation Monitoring at the Jacksonville Program Zoo Pharmacokinetics of Topical and Oral Moxidectin in the Giraffe Ft. Clinch State Park Shorebird (Giraffa camelopardalis) Monitoring Lion Country Safari Rehabilitation of Indigenous Grevy's Zebra Trust Assessing Relationships among Wildlife Dominance Status, Huguenot Park Shorebird Testosterone Concentration Relocation of American Steward Project and Ovarian Alligators

Identification of Wildlife Species Acyclicity in African Elephants Removal of Invasive Plants on Found on Jacksonville Zoo Lion Country Safari Property Grounds Boy Scout Badges: Bird Study Study of the Accidental Imeson Park Least Tern Colony Forester Introduction of the African Monitoring Project Mammal Study Bee Move with Me Jaguar Artificial Insemination Naturalist Program Share Your World with Wildlife Lubee Bat Conservancy Jamaican Boa Conservation Showman Alliance for Zero Water and Soil Conservation Jamaican Boa Educational Community Based Conservation Poster Campaign Brown Pelican Conservation of Threatened Flying Fox in Project Madagascar Kori Bustard Fly Tie Feather Distribution Cheetah Conservation and Hunting and Trading of Large Human Impact in Kenya Flying Foxes (Pteropus Land Snakes Alive Citizen vampyrus natulus) in Barito Science Project Conservation Breeding Specialist region, central Kalimantan,

Group (CBSG) Borneo Level One Whale

Disentanglement Training Education Department Projects: IUCN – BSG: Support for

Animal Website Design, Production, Lukuru Wildlife Research Project Animal Communications Hosting and Maintenance

Animal Habitats Marine Mammal Rescue Program Critter Craft: Make & Take NASBR (Annual Student Award

Enrichment Workshop and Teacher Training Mbeli Bai Gorilla Study Field Observation Workshop)

Lion Country Safari Day Camp Migratory Whooping Crane Preschool Program Protecting Africa’s Greatest Temporary Winter Holding Step-on Tour Migration: Bats at Kasanka Refurbishment Zoo Careers

Prescott (Cetacean Stranding Elephant Anti-Mullerian and Necropsy) Workshop Hormone Study Miami Metrozoo

Herpetofaunal Survey of the Pine Project FeederWatch Girl Scout Badges: Rocklands of Miami Metrozoo All About Birds

Range of the Jaguar and Guyana Animals Otter Conservation Conservation Partnership Earth Connections

Links Eco-Action

12 2009 AZA Conservation Projects

Surveys to Detect the Fungal Wildlife Rehabilitation and Whooping Crane Veterinary Pathogen Batrachochytrium Release Support dendrobatidis in Eastern Hellbender Populations in Georgia Saint Augustine Alligator Farm Center Natural Encounters, Inc. Alligator Bellows Characterization of Ejaculate Traits and Semen Donated Bird Training Workshop Alligator Coin Bank Cryopreservation in Grevy’s Position to International Zebra Association of Avian Trainers Black Caiman and Educators of a Safe Field Fundraising Efforts Crocodilian Bite Force Anesthesia Protocol for the Nile Hippopotamus Educational Bird Show at an Orlando Area Theme Park Effects of Radiographic Dye on Gharial Conservation Alliance Cat Sperm Educational Bird Show at the State Fair of Hornbill Research Foundation Establishing Genome Resource Banks and Artificial Ground Hornbill Project Roseate Spoonbill Reproduction Insemination Techniques to Augment Management of Javan Rhino Project Tomistoma Task Force Okapi Metapopulations

Monetary Donation to the Fecal Corticoid Evaluation in the Peregrine Fund Okapi Tampa’s Lowry Park Zoo Monetary Donation to the World Semen Collection and Parrot Trust California Condor Conservation Program - Bumper Sticker Cryopreservation of Okapi Fundraiser Spermatozoa

Palm Beach Zoo Captive Breeding Specialist Group – CBSG Avian Scientific Advisory Group GEORGIA Conservation Day at the Zoo Captive Breeding Program for Perdido Key Beach Mice Florida Panther Recovery Plan

Assessing Fertility in Beluga Carnivore Population Density in Gilman International Whales Misiones, Argentina Conservation – Okapi

Conservation Fund Bottlenose Dolphin Health Conservation Breeding Specialist Assessment in Sarasota Bay, Group (CBSG) Green Swamp Florida

Effectiveness of Deslorelin as a International Rhino Foundation Conservation Research on Contraception Method in Spotted Eagle Rays in Florida Goeldi's Monkeys Key Largo Woodrat Project and the Caribbean

Effect of Deslorelin Implants in Manatee Awareness Day Diet Assessment of Beluga the Behavior of Female Whales through Stable Goeldi's Monkeys Manatee Basics for Boaters Isotope, Fatty Acid, and

Contaminant Analysis Sex Differences in Space Use in Manatee Rescue, Rehabilitation

Captive Bush Dogs and Release Evaluating the Burden and

Effects of Dietary Mercury on Social Organization in a Captive Marine Mammal Research Patrol Bottlenose Dolphins Flock of Caribbean Flamingos

Seafood Watch Health of Captive and Free- The Comprehensive Florida Ranging Sharks off Georgia Hawksbill Research and Swaziland Elephant / Rhino and Florida Conservation Program Conservation

Heavy Metals in Serum Samples Widecast Turtle Survival Alliance of Manatees in Mexico

13 2009 AZA Conservation Projects

Mega-Reef Exhibit Monitoring Determination of Select Plasma and Evaluation Program Vitamin Concentrations in Systematics of Reptiles and Wild Caught Bullfrogs Amphibians Monitoring Sea Turtle Index Nesting Beaches in Georgia Drill Monkey Reintroduction The Construction Standard for Project the Giant Panda Habitat Monitoring Whale Shark Restoration Program Populations off the Northeast Efficacy of Cutaneous Florida Coast Application of Liquid Vitamin The Development of a Giant Supplement in Evergreen Panda GIS Management Neuroprotection in Cetaceans: Toads System in Are Some Marine Mammals Safeguarded From the Bends Effects of Varying Long-Term The Development of the Gansu Access to UV Radiation in Baishuijiang National Nature Whale Shark Population Study Evergreen Toads Reserve Community Resource Management Plan Giraffe Tongue Manipulations The Study of Policy and Guatemala Beaded Application of Community Acyclovir Pharmacokinetics in Conservation Program Participatory Approach in Gopher Tortoises: A Pilot Giant Panda Conservation Study Infectious Disease Control and Bioresource Banking for the The Study of the Genetic A Multi-institutional Study of Amphibian Extinction Crisis Diversity of the Qinling Giant Bachelor Gorilla Groups Panda Learning in Orangutans via a An Experimental Demonstration Computer Interface The Study of Wild Panda Study on Forest Health in Parasite Infection through Foping - A Sino-US Observational Learning in Analysis of Fecal Samples Cooperative Project Orangutans

Bamboo and Giant Panda Ontogeny of Giant Panda Conservation Sociosexual Behavior HAWAII

Basic Infrastructure for the Reproductive Behavior of Captive Adult Giant Pandas Gansu Baishui Jiang National Honolulu Zoo Nature Reserve Pia Valley: Control Role of Vocal Communication in Program Captive Giant Panda Maternal Reproductive Contexts Behavior Scientific Alliance for Latin Cognitive Research with Zoo- American Threatened housed Orangutans Using Amphibians (Salta): Leaping ILLINOIS Computer Programs from Research to Action

Color Perception Ability in Asian Anzihe Nature Reserve Cosley Zoo Giant Panda Conservation Small-clawed ( Barn Owl Recovery Project Project cinerea)

Blanding's Turtle Recovery Social Dynamics and Connecting Forest and People Project Reproductive Strategies of for the Long Term Survival of Male Mountain Gorillas Golden Lion Tamarins Blanding's Turtle Recovery

Project Presentation Social Influences on Responses Conservation Education to Familiar Novel Foods Initiatives in China Green Team

Social Learning and Cognition in Construction of Protection and Junior Conservation Apes Observation Stations at the Education

Jian Shan Nature Reserve Social Learning in Monkeys and Party for the Planet Prosimians Detection of Key Factors in the Development of Fibropapillomas in Sea Turtles; Spatial Memory Recall in the Giant Panda Puerto Rico John G.

Survey of Chytrid Fungi in Zoo Beluga Cooperative Breeding Atlanta Amphibian Collection Program

14 2009 AZA Conservation Projects

Monitoring Changing Group Headstarting Ornate Box Turtles Georges Fellowship for Dynamics in and to Establish a Viable Conservation Gorillas: a Multi-Disciplinary Population on the Lost Mound Approach Unit of the Upper Mississippi Interactive Design River National Wildlife and Privately-owned and Performing Fish Refuge Project Seahorse Chimpanzees: Strategic Assessment, Evaluation and Social Hierarchy of Barbery Right Bite Education Sheep

Sustainable Practices Removal of Primate Biscuits from Gorilla Diets: The Impact West Indian Rock Iguana on Behavior, Adiposity and INDIANA Breeding Program Health

West Indian Rock Iguana Selective Logging and Ape Population Research Infection Dynamics Fort Wayne Children’s Zoo The Australian Dingo Survey of the Use of Conservation Association Nutraceuticals for Management of Osteoarthritis AZA Conservation Endowment Fund Case study: Investigating the in Several Non-domestic

Role of Herd Dynamics on Species Housed in AZA Initiative Sexual Maturity and accredited Zoological

Reproductive Success in our Institutions Conservation Center Male Grevy’s Zebra ( Tanzania Ecosystem Health grevyi) Orangutan Conservancy Training Program Collaborative Research: Reassembling Pollinator Urban Pollinators Communities to Promote Pollination Function at the Using Camera Traps to Assess Fort Wayne Children’s Zoo Landscape scale Mammalian Community Migration and Habitat Use by Composition, Abundance, and Threatened Spectacled Eiders Community Composition and Diversity across a Landscape in the Eastern Chukchi Near Behavior of Nest Gradient in the Greater and Offshore Environment Predators in Two Urban Area Habitats Virginia Big-eared Bat Utility of Anti-human CD4 and (Corynorhinus townsendii Do Immune Function Alterations CD8 Antibodies to Identify virginianus) Plan for Explain Asian Elephant Lymphocyte Subsets in Controlled Holding, (Elephas maximus) Chimpanzee Tissues Propagation, and Susceptibility to Reintroduction Mycobacterium spp.?

Evaluating the Communication Scovill Zoo Process for Species Survival Population Census of Free- Indianapolis Zoological Plans (SSPs) and Population Roaming Cheetah (Acinonyx Society, Inc. Management Plans (PMPs) at jubatus) Outside of Protected Analysis of the Development and Lincoln Park Zoo, Brookfield Areas in South Africa Management of African Zoo and Milwaukee County Elephant (Loxodonta africana) Zoo Land Acquisition Within the Calves Ricon Rainforest, Costa Rica

Foraging Ecology of Zoo-housed Anti-Müllerian Hormone as an Southern Three-Banded Indicator of Ovarian Follicle (Tolypeutes Function in Elephants: Is matacus) at Lincoln Park Zoo Naibi Zoo Acyclicity Due to Follicle

Black Bear Olfactory Enrichment Depletion? Long-term Monitoring of an

Eastern Massasauga Body Temperature of Giraffes Artificial Insemination of the Rattlesnake (EMR) Population African Elephant Using Frozen in Southwest Michigan Evaluating the Effects of Semen

Construction Noise on a Management Guidelines for Family of Gabriella's Crested Assessing Relationships among Avian Influenza: Zoological Dominance Status, Parks and Exhibitors Testosterone Concentrations

15 2009 AZA Conservation Projects

and Ovarian Acyclicity in Eastern Massasauga Rattlesnake African Elephants Saving What Is Left: Species Survival Plan Determination of Genetic Assessment of Health and Aging Heterozygosity in Captive Florida Biodiversity Foundation, in a Captive Colony of Ring- Populations of Crowned Inc tailed Lemurs (Lemur catta): Lemurs (Eulemur coronatus) Comparisons to a Living Wild and Collared Brown Lemurs International Crane Foundation Population (Eulemur collaris) Notre Dame Civil Engineering Assessment of Palatability of a Scientifically Establish Normal Project Gelatin Based Diet Through Sperm Morphology and the Use of “First Bite” and Semen Characteristics for The Ecology, Behavior and “Total Volume” Measurements Gentoo Penguins Conservation of Takin in Atlantic Bottlenose Dolphins (Tursiops truncatus). Signal Meaning and Long-term Understanding African Lion Social Recognition of Reproductive Biology and Atlantic Bottlenose Dolphin Vocalizations in Tursiops Establishing a Genome Education Programs: Benefits truncatus Research Bank for Conservation Education and Animal Welfare The Role of Endogenous Zoo Conservation Outreach Hormone Fluctuations in Group (ZCOG) Biological Samples from Wild Alopecia/Dermatitis in Captive Ricord's Iguanas (Cyclura Polar Bears ( maritimus) ricordi) and Wild Rhinoceros Iguanas (Cyclura cornuta) Thermography Study to Collect Iowa Data Related to Heat Loss Census of Ricord's (Cyclura Before and After Exercise in ricordi) and Rhinoceros the African Elephant Blank Park Zoo (Cyclura cornuta) Iguanas on

Isla Cabritos, Dominican Understanding the Effects of Alive in the Class Republic Testosterone in the

Manifestation of Male Center for Ecological Survival Collecting Behavioral Data of the Secondary Sexual Introduction of a New Female Characteristics in Female Home School Programming Southern White Rhinoceros to Ring-tailed Lemurs (Lemur Group and Possible Breeding catta) Hornbill Research Foundation Behavior Using Systematic Observation to Learning Environmental Action Determining UV Light Intensity Improve Our Knowledge of Program with Actual Absorption Rate - the Behavior of Southern

Bearded Dragon White Rhinoceros Library Programs

Development of Sex Selection Pan African Sanctuary Alliance Protocols for African and (PASA) Asian Elephant Sperm

Amphibian Ark Snow Leopard Trust Documenting Rockhopper

Penguin Breeding Behavior Amphibian Steward Network- Summer Safari Chytrid Project Head Movements of Freely Swimming Dolphins Amur Leopard and Tiger Alliance (ALTA) Male Migration and Bond KANSAS Formation Patterns in Semi- AZA Amphibian Conservation free Ranging Ring-tailed lemurs (Lemur catta); A AZA’s Conservation Endowment Historical Review Fund Mississippi Kite

Non-invasive Fecal Hormone Butterfly Conservation Initiative Reintroduction and Monitoring Monitoring and Pregnancy (BFCI) of Black-Footed in Diagnosis in Polar Bears Logan County, Kansas (Ursus maritimus) Development of reproductive monitoring techniques for Wildlife Rehabilitation Passive Transfer of Immunity in captive management of Neonatal Ungulates: A endangered Amur and Snow Practical Approach for Assessing Antibody Levels

16 2009 AZA Conservation Projects

Black-footed ferret (Mustela Animal Revival for Catch-and- nigripes) reintroduction Release Fishing Tournaments Lee Richardson Zoo project in Kansas African Elephant Testosterone Captive Breeding of the Lined Study Financial Support for Seahorse International Conservation Bushmeat Crisis Educational Organizations Conservation Team Steering Kiosk Committee Greater prairie Center for Ecosystem Survival (Tympanuchus cupido) Fish Survey of Bucktown Marsh Osa Peninsula, Costa Rica, reintroduction project in Habitat Acquisition Missouri Genome Resource Bank Applications for Conservation Collection of Public Funds for Native Wildlife and Local of the Southern Black Footed Ferret Projects Conservation Louisiana Marine Mammal and Research Samples for SSP or Sea Turtle Stranding Network Collection of Public Funds for TAG Approved Research Conservation Breeding Studies Recycling Program Programs Support for Dr. Danelle Okeson, School-to-Career Job Shadows Collection of Public Funds for Adjunct Professor at Kansas Elephant Herpes Virus State University

Research Collection of Public Funds for Amphibian Conservation Facility Lee Richardson Zoo Wetland Development (Lycaon Amur Leopard in-situ

pictus) Conservation Conservation Collection of Public Funds for

Madagascan Conservation , , American Breeders Conservancy Workshop Determination of Estrous

Cyclicity, Pregnancy and/or Conservation Donations Betty Wisdom Resource Room / Seasonality Patterns in African Suitcases for Survival Loan Lions Diane Fossey Gorilla Fund Program

Development of Animal Feeder International Bowling for Rhinos Dispenser Stations Dominance Behaviors within All-

male Gorilla Groups Housed in Earth Fest Feather Picking in Captive Bali a Zoo Setting Mynah Hornbill Feather Distribution

Impact of Visitor Activity on the Project Mourning Dove Reward Banding Behavior of Captive Bears Study Hornbill Research Foundation

Knowledge Acquisition of Nest Adoption Project Prediction of North America Children in an Informal River Otter Parturition through International Iguana Foundation Progesterone Levels from Education Setting

Feces International Migratory Bird Day Okapi Epulu Project at Audubon Zoo Variation and Inheritance of the

Mane in Captive Lions Personality Style and Extreme Personality in Chimpanzees International Rhino Foundation

Zoological Information Puerto Rican Crested Toad Junior Keeper Management System Hydrology Study--SSP Contribution Lion Tamarins of Fund

Mississippi Gopher Frog Captive Breeding Project Rolling Hills Wildlife LOUISIANA Adventure Mississippi Sandhill Crane Reproduction AZA Captive Breeding Programs Audubon Aquarium of the

Americas Turtle Survival Alliance SSP WILD Science

17 2009 AZA Conservation Projects

WILD Science Learning Kits Analysis of Dolphin Whistle Repertoires: A Longitudinal MASSACHUSETTS Zoo Conservation Outreach Study Group AquaEcosystem: Pioneering in Buttonwood Park Zoo Zoo School Applied Education An Investigation into Asian Elephant (Elephas maximus) Bahamas Cognition Conservation Initiative Do Asian Elephants Have BREC’s Baton Rouge Zoo Rhythm? Non-Chemical Control of Blue Captive Parasites in Breeding Program Asian Elephant EEHV Serology

Project Development of a New Non- invasive Method for Collecting Behavior and Communication of MARYLAND and Analyzing Biological Translocated Elephants in Samples (“blow”) from Wild South Africa Cetaceans Bug-a- Maryland Zoo in Developmental and Other Age- Baltimore related Aspects of Mirror Self- Build a Bird Feeder Workshop recognition in Bottlenose Examination of Heavy Metal Dolphins Contaminants in Delmarva Fox Build a Bird House Workshop

Squirrels (Sciurus niger Dune Restoration at Little Creek cinereus) in Maryland Buttonwood Park Zoo Butterfly Amphibious Base and Dam Garden Neck Annex, Virginia Exposure of Free-ranging Cape Cod Stranding Network (Ursus Fish Quarantine Practices at americanus) in Maryland, USA, Other Public Display Aquaria Elephant Anti-Müllerian to Select Pathogens Hormone Study Fort McHenry Tidal Wetland Exposure to Select Infectious Restoration Project Agents in ( Elephant Appreciation Day

lotor) and ( Howard Hughes Medical Institute vulpes) on the grounds of the Family Fun Fall Campfires AquaPartners with Baltimore Maryland Zoo in Baltimore City Public Schools Harvest at the Farm

Hormonal Influence for Lion Tamarins of Brazil Fund Stimulation of Sperm and Egg Hydroponics Planter Wall

Production, as well as In-vitro Marine Animal Rescue Program Fertilization Techniques in Masters Home-Range and (MARP) Habitat Preferences of the Captive Panamanian Golden Frogs (Atelopes zeteki) Eastern Hognose Snake Parking (Heterodon platyrhinos) at Meter Pharmacokinetic Study of Cape Cod National Seashore

Enrofloxacin in African Population Assessment of Free- Penguins Mouse Olfactory Response to ranging Bufo guttatus in the Predator Urine National Aquarium in Project Golden Frog Baltimore Rainforest Exhibit North American River Otter

Teachers, Turtles, and Captive Breeding Study Project Piaba Technology: Eastern Box Turtle Conservation Education Party for the Planet Rainforest Conservation Parking Meter Pilot Study: Respiratory Inductance Plethysmography Remote Nest Box Monitoring of in the Asian Elephant National Aquarium in Rainforest Birds Baltimore Plymouth Redbelly Cooter Head Sea Turtle Protection and American Horseshoe Start Program Rehabilitation in Costa Rica Health and Longevity

Walk in the Footsteps of Giants Tidal Wetland Restoration and An Investigation of Surface Monitoring in the Chesapeake Elevation Tables as a Tool in Winter Tracking in the Bay Tidal Marsh Restoration Bioreserve Assessment

18 2009 AZA Conservation Projects

Children’s Zoo at Puerto Rican Crested Toad SSP

Celebration Square SE Michigan Karner Blue Capron Park Zoo Adopt a Highway Butterfly Reintroduction

Outreach and On-site Arctic Zoo Fest Conservation Program Classes Siberian Crane

and Events Go Wild! Earth Day Celebration Turtle Survival Alliance

Madagascar Fauna Group Halloween Harvest Zoo Boo Fundraiser Wyoming Toad SSP

International Migratory Bird Day Wyoming Toad Survey Paper and Plastic Recycling Program Reptile Slither

Population Management Plans SaveNature.org Conservation John Ball Zoo Parking Meter Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis Predator / Prey Relationships Infection of Frogs in Michigan Research

Conservation of Endangered Species Survival Plans Detroit Zoological Park Turtles in Chitwan National

African Elephant Conservation Park, Nepal Taxon Advisory Group Steering Trust Committee Expanding education Impact to Amazon Rainforest Adopt-A- Foster Cotton-top Tamarin School conservation in Columbia

Museum of Science Bushmeat Crisis Task Force Great Lakes Piping Plover Headstart Program for the Red- Recovery Project bellied Cooter Butterfly Conservation Initiative Growing Together; Lemurs, Karner Blue Butterfly Habitat Carnivore Preservation Trust Bamboo, and the Local Restoration Project Community; Kianjavato, Common Tern Nesting Habitat Madagascar Restoration at Belle Isle on the Detroit River Impact of & Browse MICHIGAN Consumption on Regurgitation Conservation Breeding Specialist and Reingestion in Captive Group Western Lowland Gorillas Binder Park Zoo Crocodile Interest Group Longitudinal Population Study of Binder Park Zoo Educational Eastern Massasauga Programs Cryptobranchid Interest Group Rattlesnakes

Blanchard’s Cricket Frog Project Eastern Massasauga Rattlesnake Piping Plover Recovery Project

Field Survey Kanoe the Kazoo Watershed Protecting the Endangered Conservation Education Golden Frog SSP African Wild Dog in the

Zimbabwean Parts of the Michigan Box Turtle Research Great Lake Piping Plover Greater Limpopo and Shashe

Salvage Captive Rearing Limpopo Transfrontier Native Michigan Turtle Research Conservation Areas and Conservation Grevy's Zebra Trust

Salmon in the School Piping Plover Patrol/Recovery International Rhino Foundation Program The Ostrich Recovery Project in

Madeleine Berman Academy for Niger: It takes a Village Prairie Habitat Restoration Humane Education Project Wood Turtle Release

Massasauga SSP Wolf Awareness- Timber Wolf Alliance Osprey Reintroduction in SE Michigan

Partula Field Program Consortium

19 2009 AZA Conservation Projects

Pan African Association of Zoos, Bats of Missouri – A Guide Aquariums and Botanical Gardens (PAAZAB) Center for Ecosystem Survival- Maya Biosphere Reserve - Spatial Patterns and Habitat Use Blanding's Turtle Field Work Conservation Parking Meters of Juvenile Cottonmouths and Great Plains Rat Snakes in a Chronic Diarrhea in Primates at Cheetah Conservation Fund Stream Environment in the Como Zoo Southwest Missouri Conservation Breeding Specialist Como Zoo Orangutan Activity Group Survey of Missouri Bats Budget Descriptive Ultrasonography of Zoo Conservation Outreach Emergence Records of Giant the Reproductive Tract Group (ZCOG) Jumping Sticks (Stiphra sp.) at Among Female Asian Como Zoo Elephants of Varying Ages and Reproductive Status Gorilla Health Project Saint Louis Zoo

Dong Phayayen-Khao Yai Antelope Mother/Infant Behavior International Orangutan Carnivore Conservation Study Studbook Keeper Project

Assessing Grazing Improvement Mulitple Ocular Colobomas in Ecological Impacts of Wind and for Grevy's Zebra on Lewa Snow Leopards Energy: Where Wind and Wildlife Conservancy

Wings Collide North American Crowned Lemur Avian health Course and Survey Studbook Education Programs within the in the Galapagos Islands

Surrounding Communities Pododermatis (Bumblefoot) in Avian Pox in Galapagos Endemic Waterfowl at Como Zoo El Valle Amphibian Conservation Birds

Center Reconstructing the Description of Haemoproteus Demographic History of the Elephant-Human Coexistence - Parasites Infecting Great Genus Pongo, with Special How Elephants Persist in Frigate Birds (Fregata minor) Emphasis on the Role of Traditional Agricultural on Isla Genovesa Microcephalin and ASPM, Two Systems of South Asia Genes Involved in Regulation Environmental Education for the of Brain Size Evaluation of Progesterone and Conservation of Mountain

Luteinizing Hormone and its Habitat at the The Presence of Campylobacter Concentrations in Female Bale Mountains National Park, in a Captive Zoological Asian Elephants Ethiopia Collection of non-human

Primates International Crane Foundation Exposure to Toxoplasma gondii

in Galapagos Penguins and Training Optimization for International Elephant Flightless Cormorants in the Geriatric Foundation - Elephant Herpes Galapagos Islands

Virus Lab Wyoming Toad SSP Master Plan Genetic Structure and Genetic Meeting and Fieldwork Investigation into a Diversity of the Endangered Reproductive Event in a Fer- Galapagos Penguin and de-lance Galapagos Flightless Cormorant MISSOURI Lateral Trunk Bias in the African Elephant GIS Applications to Disease Studies of Endemic Galapagos The Madagascar Fauna Group Avifauna

Butterfly Conservation Initiative Maned Wolf Research Project in (BFCI) Grevy's Zebra Bursary Program Brazil

El Bosque Nuevo Grevy's Zebra Trust New Techniques Utilizing a Modified Endoscope and New Habitat Preference and Catheter Design to Visualize Population Status of the the Reproductive Tract of in the Bale Dickerson Park Zoo Female Asian Elephants Mountains, Ethiopia AZA Conservation Endowment Fund

20 2009 AZA Conservation Projects

Hawks - Genetic and Phenotypic structure of Galapagos Hawk Outreach talks Populations NEW JERSEY ParKids: Animal Adaptations to Health Survey for the the Desert Reintroduction of the Floreana Mockingbird Pre-School Story Time Adventure Aquarium International Elephant Shark Spine Study Ringtail DNA Analysis Study Foundation (IEF) Star Parties Movement Patterns, Habitat Preferences, and Natural Bergen County Zoological Wildlife Rehabilitation, Holding History of the Armenian Viper, Park and Treatment Montivipera raddei, in Armenia Cell Phone Recycling Xeriscape Workshop

Northern Rangelands Trust FrogWatch USA You Are What You Eat

Okapi Project in the Democratic Herp Atlas Republic of Congo Zoo Camp

Horseshoe Crab Population Plasmodium in Galapagos Census Penguins

Vernal Pool Analysis NEW YORK Scent Stations as a Natural Deterrent to Raccoons

Waterborne Transmission of Binghamton Zoo Toxoplasma gondii in the NEW MEXICO Crow Behavioral Study Galapagos Otter Fecal Assay – Determining Albuquerque Biological Parturition Window

Park MONTANA Correlation of Snow Leopard Genetics with Immune Seneca Park Zoo Function Amur Leopard and Tiger Alliance Grizzly & Wolf Discovery Center Evaluation of Captive Gibbons Bowling for Rhinos for Infection and Transmission Bear-Resistant Products Testing of an Epizoonotic Agent: the Program Butterfly Beltway Gibbon Ape Leukemia Virus

West Yellowstone Christmas Chittenango Ovate Amber Snail Gorilla Wounding Study Bird Count Annual Count

Mexican Grey Wolf Education Chittenango Ovate Amber Snail Research Vegetation Nutrient Analysis Zoo Montana and Histopathology

Management of Bison with Conservation Meters dedicated Contraception and Living Desert Zoo and to coral reef conservation in Preservation of a Fragile Palau and rainforest Ecosystem Gardens State Park conservation in the Pantanal Bolson Tortoise Reproduction

The Use of PZP (Porcine Zona and Hatchling Study Eastern Massassauga Pellucida) Rattlesnake Mark and Immunocontraception in Dall Contraception Trial Studies in Recapture Sheep and Pygmy Pronghorn

El Valle Amphibian Research Docent Training Center

Educational Tours/ Adults & Grow Native NEW HAMPSHIRE Youth

Honeybee Hive Pollinator Field Trip Earth Squam Lakes Natural Awareness

Science Center Mescal Roast and Mountain New Hampshire Kestrel Project Spirit Dances

21 2009 AZA Conservation Projects

International Conservation of for Greater Understanding of Tropical Environments (ICTE) Amazon Rainforest the Mesoamerican Barrier Angola Reef. International Elephant Argentina Foundation Interpretative Strategy for Belize Volcanoes National Park. Lake Sturgeon Restoration In the Genesee River at Seneca Park Brazil Primate Habituation and Eco- Burma () tourism Development in Madagascar Fete Burundi Nyungwe National Park. Cambodia National Elephant Center Cameroon Curatorial Conservation Canada Projects Pollinator Awareness Vegetable Central African Republic Assessing the Effects of Human Garden Chad Activity on Gelada Chile (Theropithecus gelada) Riddle’s Elephant Sanctuary China Populations in Simien Colombia Mountains National Park, The Fund Cuba Ethiopia Democratic Republic of Congo Ecuador Assessing the Occurrence of England, London Two Indochinese Silvered Trevor Zoo Equatorial Guinea Langur Taxa (Trachypithecus Biodiversity/Climate Change Falklands/Malvinas germaini and Trachypithecus Educational Exhibit Fiji margarita) in Two Protected Gabon Forest Areas in Cambodia Bog turtle Survey and Habitat Guatemala Restoration India Assessment of Camera Trapping Technology in Monitoring Conservation through Education Kenya Carnivores of the Eastern and Action! Lao People's Democratic Humid Forests of Madagascar Republic Conservation Tree Madagascar Behavioral and Ecological Malaysia Studies of Sichuan Takin and Environmental Council Initiatives Mesoamerican Reef Mapping of Current Mongolia Distribution in China Pale Swallowwort / Invasive Nicaragua Species Control Nigeria Capacity Building Protect the Night Sky! Pamir Mountains, Central Asia Disease Surveys of Amphibians Panama Purple Loosestrife / Invasive Papua Evaluating the Effects of Live- Species Control Shearing Free-Ranging Peru in the Payunia Red Ape Project Collaboration Russia Nature Reserve Rwanda Support of Project Piaba Sudan Ex-situ Husbandry and Health Expertise Sultanate of Oman Factors Influencing Sunset Zoological Park Tajikistan Reproductive Success in Snow Tanzania Leopards Black-footed Ferret Introduction Thailand in Logan County, Kansas Uganda HerpEcology USA Hygiene Linking Behavioral Types and Vietnam Ozark Hellbender Project Animal Job Performance with Zambia Population Management in *Due to the large number of Zoos Global Field Based Projects reported, please contact the Propagation of the Extinct in the Wildlife Conservation Conservation Science Wild, Kihansi Spray Toad Society Department for a full list.

Testing Methods for Assessing EGAD Field Projects Global Field Based Projects the Reinforcing Effects of Glover’s Reef Marine Research Took Place in the Following Choice in Primates at the Station (GRMRS) – A Resource Countries or Regions:

22 2009 AZA Conservation Projects

Are the Messages Being Tools for the Conservation of Received? A Study of the African Wild Dogs: Developing Effectiveness of Interpretives Vaccination Protocols for Field North Carolina Aquarium at the North Carolina Use Zoological Park at Pine Knoll Shores WCS Sea Duck Research Eastern Oyster Spatfall Study Assessing Correlations between Program Vitamin E and A Status and Monofilament Line Recycling Lenticular Anomalies in Global Health Field Programs Project Captive Parakeet Auklets Wildlife Health and Conservation (Aethia psittacula) in Africa NC Big Sweep Biodiversity Surveys and Wildlife Health and Conservation Oyster Garden Demonstration Conservation Planning in in Asia Project Southwestern Nigeria

Wildlife Health and Conservation Party for the Planet Cape Fear Shiner Recovery in Latin America and Program Caribbean Sea Turtle Awareness Project Census, Habitat Use and Control Wildlife Health and Conservation Sea Turtle Stranding Network of Canada Geese at the North in North America Carolina Zoological Park “Trash or Treat” at the Dockside Puppet Theater Chimpanzee Cognition Research

World Day Conservation of Elephants and NORTH CAROLINA Other Wildlife in Nigeria's Yankari Game Reserve

North Carolina Aquarium North Carolina Aquarium Conservation of Forest and on Roanoke Island Marine Species in Coastal at Fort Suriname Beach Vitex Survey Removal Captive Spawning and Rearing

Marine and Cross River Gorilla Monitoring in Earth Day Expo Invertebrates Nigeria and Cameroon

Investigation of the Efficacy of Carolinas Beach Vitex Task Development of a Biscuit-free Deslorelin Implants in Force Diet for Zoo Gorillas Designated Species

Least Tern Rooftop Colony Environmental Factors and Manteo Middle School Monitoring Social Behaviors Affecting Pair Demonstration Rain Gardens Formation by Ground

Local Catch: NC Seafood Hornbills Marine Mammal Stranding Availability Cards Network Ex-situ Propagation and

Loggerhead Turtle Hatchling Cultivation Research on West NC Big Sweep Development African Lowland Forest Plant

Species Purple Martin Conservation Marine Mammal Stranding Project Response Team of the Cross

River Gorilla Sea Turtle Rehabilitation Monofilament Line Recycling

Project Ginseng and Basic Mesic Forest Three Cases of Gastric Prolapse Management Plan through the Gill Slit in Sand Painted Bunting Observer Team Tiger Sharks, Carcharhinus Greater Uwharries Conservation taurus Scales and Tails Event Partnership

Sea Turtle Stranding Response Hellbender Surveys in Western Team North Carolina North Carolina Zoo Southeast Regional Analysis of Time and Activity ISO 140001 Environmental Conservation Alliance Budgets in a Captive Colony Management System of Horned Puffins (Fratercula Certification Includes Using Marine Mammals to corniculata) Objectives and Targets and Communicate Solutions to Applied Research for Issues Sustainable Operations of the

23 2009 AZA Conservation Projects

Horticulture Section at the International Elephant Zoo Tooro Garden Development Plan Foundation (IEF)

Life History and Behavioral Winter Activity of the American International Rhino Foundation Aspects of the Cape Fear Alligator (Alligator (IRF) Shiner missisippiensis) in an Outdoor Captive Environment IUCN Otter Specialist Group Making Connections: Linking Schools in Uganda and North Kibale Community Fuel Wood Carolina Project (KCFWP) Western North Carolina Masticatory Morphology of Limbe Wildlife Center (LWC) Primates and Carnivores Indiana Bat monitoring Program Okapi Conservation Project in Medicinal Compounds in an the Democratic Republic of African Plant All - Taxa Biodiversity Inventory Congo Project (ATBI) Morphometric Measures as Pan African Sanctuary Alliance Indicators of Sex in Horned (PASA) Puffins NORTH DAKOTA Partners in Conservation (PIC) North Carolina Natural Heritage Program International (PBI)

Pan African Networking Group Roosevelt Park Zoo Pro Delphinus Native Plantscaping Plant Collection Documentation Projects Funded by The and Verification through Plant Nest Boxes Columbus Zoo and Aquarium Taxonomy Research The Association for the Rescue Pollution Prevention Planning, and Conservation of Wildlife Water testing, and Water OHIO (Asociación de Rescate y Quality Environmental Conservación de Vida Education Workshops Silvestre) – ARCAS Akron Zoological Park Radio-telemetry of Snakes Assessing the Impact of The National Elephant Center Mycobatria in the (NEC) Radio-telemetry Tracking and Management of the White Monitoring of Box Turtles Winged Wood Duck, Cairina Wine for Wildlife scutulatta of the Gorilla Reintroduction of Schweintz’s Sunflower (Helianthus Greater Akron Audubon / Akron schweinitzii) to Purgatory Zoo - Christmas Bird Count Mountain Suitcase for Survival OKLAHOMA Ridges Mountain Management

Plan

Survey of Amphibians and Oklahoma City Reptiles at the North Carolina Columbus Zoo and Zoological Park Zoological Park Aquarium Ape TAG Conservation Initiative American (AWL) The Caraway’s Schweintz’s El Valle Amphibian Research Sunflower (Helianthus Cheetah Conservation Fund Center schweinitzii) Mitigation Site (CCF) Elephant Care International The Effectiveness of Columbus Zoo Bird Count Environmental Enrichment on Monarch Watch Fund the Behavior of Various Bird Columbus Zoo Sustainability and Mammal Species at the Program Nature Conservancy of North Carolina Zoological Park Oklahoma Commitment to Elephant The Elephants of Cameroon Conservation Oklahoma Department of Wildlife Conservation Thermoregulation in the East African Otter Project (Alligator (EAOP) Oklahoma Museum Association missisippiensis)

24 2009 AZA Conservation Projects

Pacific Marine Mammal Center Rainforest Restoration Borneo Conservation Project Foundation Project Golden Frog Build Ivy Ridge Trail Project Heloderma Saving Oklahoma’s Salamanders Carbon Offset Projects Project Seahorse Cheetah Conservation Fund Network OREGON Coastal Plain Leopard Frog Southwest Partners in Amphibian and Reptile Conestoga Forest Garden Conservation Oregon Zoo Diamondback Terrapins - The Butaan Project Future for Wildlife Field Bioaccumulation of Persistent Conservation Grant Program Organic Pollutants in the Salt Working Dogs for Conservation Marsh Ecosystem Oregon Spotted Frog World Parrot Trust USA Diamondback Terrapin Head Polar Bear Stereotypy, Stress, Start Program Zoo Conservation Outreach and Temperament Study Group (ZCOG) Docent Council Projects Propagation of Kincaid’s Lupine for Habitat Restoration, Epulu Okapi Project Education, and Conservation The Wilds Giant Elephant Shrew Pygmy rabbit (Brachylagus ( rufus) Monitoring (Rhynchocyon petersi) idahoensis) Captive Care and at the Wilds and Beyond via Behavioral Study Breeding Biotelemetry

Golden lion Tamarin Behavioral Taylor’s Checkerspot Captive Butterfly and Pollinator Habitat Research Rearing Experimentation Enhancement

International Rhino Foundation Western Pond Turtle Conservation and Ecology of Headstarting Sichuan Takin Jaguar Conservation and Monitoring in Western Belize Influence of Long-Acting Neuroleptics on Reproductive Jardin del Barrio Cyclicity and Behavior in PENNSYLVANIA Ungulates Liberty Lands Stormwater Management Project Health and Stress Assessment in National Freshwater Mussels Madagascar Fauna Group Establishment of an "Eastern Working Group" Managing North American Mantua Square Tree Planting

Landscapes for Native Parentage in the Louisiana Biodiversity McMichael School Garden Waterthrush: Evidence for Extra-pair Copulations in a Reintroduction of American Micronesian Kingfisher Species with Linear Husbandry Research Burying to Ohio Territories?

Youth-Managed Pollinator Plot Mid-Atlantic Conservation Alliance

Philadelphia Zoo Northern Nest American Association of Fostering Tulsa Zoo and Living Museums Sustainability Wallet Museum Card Onsite Sustainability Initiatives Asian Elephant Semen Collection Amphibian Ark Philadelphia Business and Center for Ecosystem Survival - Technology Center's Conservation Parking Meter Andean Amphibians Composting Program

Impact of Aging on Endocrine Audubon Pennsylvania Polar Bear International Function in Asian Elephants: Partnership Do Elephants Experience Project Punta San Juan Metaphase? Best Bets for Pets wallet cards Rainwater Catchment for Wyck

25 2009 AZA Conservation Projects

FrogWatch USA Rodrigues Environmental Educator Helping Humboldt Penguins by Greenville Zoo Monitoring Guano Harvests International Elephant Sahara Conservation Fund Foundation (IEF) International Elephant Save the Tiger Fund Foundation Proyecto Titi- Cotton Topped Tamarin Conservation Semipalmated Sandpiper Karner Blue Butterfly Recovery / Butterfly Conservation Snakes of Georgia and South Short-nosed Echidna Ecology Initiative: Partnerships for Carolina Recovery Snow Leopard Trust Snakes of South Carolina Poster Kibale Community Fuel Wood The Cougar Network Project The Chytrid in the Red Salamander, pseudotriton The Dulary Fund National Elephant Center in ruber, in South Carolina, USA Okkechobee, Florida Tigris Foundation Zoo Conservation Outreach New England Zoo and Aquarium Group (ZCOG) Translocation and Conservation Collaborative Reintroduction of Biocolorer Tamarins Polar Bears International Ripley’s Aquarium at Trout in the Watershed Recovery Program Myrtle Beach UC Green Corps Management Rhode Island’s 9th Annual Apex Predator Tagging Study Team BioBlitz Beach Sweep WePAC (West Philadelphia Sophie Danforth Conservation Alliance for Children) Biology Small Grants Program Earth Day Celebration Nature Club Supporting the El Valle Plasma Chemistry Database for West Philly Tool Library Amphibian Conservation Sand Tiger Sharks Center Youth Garden Activity Sea Turtle Reproductive Tarangire Elephant Project

The Jane Goodall Institute Seasonal Movement Patterns of ZOOAMERICA North Sand Tiger Sharks Tree Kangaroo Conservation American Wildlife Park Program in Papua New Guinea Splash for Trash AZA Conservation Endowment Fund The Use of Ultrasonography in Managing Reproductive Dauphin Wildcare Rescue SOUTH CAROLINA Activity of Dasyatis americana in

RHODE ISLAND Bramble Park Zoo Raptor Rehabilitation Riverbanks Zoo and

Seasonal Fluctuations in Adult Garden Zoo Mosquito Populations in Conservation of Golden Lion American Burying Eastern South Dakota Tamarins in Brazil--In (Nicrophorus americanus) Perpetuity Captive Propagation and Trumpeter Swan Release Reintroduction Program Program Genetic System of Translocated Gopher Tortoises Biological Control of Purple Loosestrife (Lythrum salicaria) Conservation Project for Pygmy Brookgreen Gardens Sunfishes (Elassoma sp.) Conservation Breeding Specialist Determining the Distribution of Group (CBSG) Direct & Indirect Effects of Eastern Spotted , Exurbanization on the E. Striped Skunks, and Long Conservation Endowment Fund Diamondback Rattlesnake Tailed (CEF) (Crotalus adamanteus)

26 2009 AZA Conservation Projects

Distribution of Public Recycling Radio-tracking of GSM-collared Bins and Recycling Education Grevy's Zebra in northern Survey of Freshwater Mussels in in Riverbanks Zoo Kenya Select Streams of South Carolina Habitat Preference and Safety & Utility of an External Population Status of the Radio Transmitter System for Mountain Nyala in the Bale Monitoring Activity & Mountains, Ethiopia Movement Patterns of Agalychnis spurrelli in Barro Health Assessment of and West Colorado Island, Panama Nile Virus Prevalence in Free- living Thick-billed Parrot Sumatran Elephant Conservation Response Units in Bengkulu Applications of Infrared Helping the Commonwealth of Province, Sumatra Thermography for the the Northern Mariana Islands Physiological Monitoring of (CNMI) Conserve their Native Surveys of the Native Fauna of Captive Wildlife Avifauna Riverbanks Zoo and Garden AZA Giant Panda Conservation Herpetological Survey of the The Serengeti Giraffe Project: Program (GPCF) Congaree Creek Heritage Ecological Analysis of a Preserve Population in Decline Cryobanking Memphis Zoo's Genetic Resources: Wildlife Kibale Community Fuel Wood Conservation for the Future? Project South Carolina Aquarium Development of a Model to Understand the Nutritional Molecular Ecology & Systematics Asian Green Mussel Surveys for the Conservation of Requirements of the Giant Panda Crocodiles in West and Barnacle Growth as an Indicator Central Africa of the Onset and Duration of Development of New Clinical Symptoms of Monitoring and Home Range Technologies for Conservation Debilitated Turtle Syndrome of Endangered Amphibians Analysis of the Greater Bamboo Lemur (Prolemur Cape Island Turtle Project Ecology and Conservation of sinus) in Kianjavato, Madagascar and Pumas in Emas Carolina Vegetation Survey Field National Park and Surrounding Foray Nutrient and Toxin Analysis of Farmlands

Foods Consumed by Mantled Loggerhead Turtle Pit Tag Study and Black Howling Monkeys Habitat use of Giant Pandas in the Foping Nature Reserve, (Alouatta spp) in Mangrove Nesting Site Survey for the Habitat Qinling Mountain Range, China Swallow-Tailed Kite

Nutritional Evaluation of Free International Elephant Project PROTHO Foundation (IEF) Ranging and Rehabilitated Sub-adult and Adult REEF Fish Survey Project International Jaguar Loggerhead Sea Turtles (Caretta caretta) Conservation Foundation Robust Redhorse Conservation (JCF) Committee Population Health & Genetics of Iowa Trumpeter Swan Black-footed and SCDNR Marine Resources Infectious Disease Prevalence Restoration Program Division In-Water Sea Turtle in Sympatric Carnivores Study Mariana Avifauna Conservation Program: Phase One Protected Area Mapping and Sea Turtles in the Classroom - an Species Inventories with Local Activity Guide Correlated to Quantification of Bamboo Communities in Papua, New South Carolina State Guinea Handling Time and Selection Education Standards by Giant Pandas (

melanoleuca): Roles of Protecting the Waterways South Carolina Aquarium Sea Nutritional Content, Turtle Rehabilitation Program Energetics and Seasonality

(Choeropsis liberiensis) South Carolina Oyster Recycling of Cell Phones and Conservation in Sierra Leone Restoration and Enhancement Used Batteries Program

Rabies Risks to African Wild Remote Physiological Monitoring Dogs on Community Lands South Carolina Phytoplankton of the Giant Panda Using Monitoring Network

27 2009 AZA Conservation Projects

Urinary and Fecal Hormonal Activity in Rhinoptera bonasus Assays in Combination with in Captivity Checkered Garter Snake,T. m. Nutritional Infrared marcianus, Reintroduction Reflectance Spectroscopy Wildlife Conservation Society: Project (NIRS) Profiling Seasonal Movement Patterns

of Sand Tiger Sharks, Ontogenetic Variation and Aging Seasonal Histochemical and Carcharias taurus, in the in Prosimian Primates Nutritional Characteristics of Western Atlantic Ocean

Bamboo Consumed by Giant Orangutan Development Study Pandas

Providing Specialized Diets for Sino-US Forest Health and Tennessee Aquarium Texas Indigenous Species Restoration Project: Sino-US Colvard Spring Habitat Forester Exchange Tour Restoration

Using Bio-Gas stoves as a Conservation Genetics and Strategy for Forest Larval Biology of Popeye Black Bear Task Force Conservation Shiner, a Rare Fish in a

Fragmented Ecosystem Conservation of Siamese

Crocodiles in Cambodia Emory River Fish Community

Health Nashville Zoo Croc School Scholarship

Clouded Leopard Consortium Preventing Extinction: Great Ape Conservation Conasauga Logperch Clouded Leopard In-situ Project Initiative Propagation and Genetics

Haitian Giant Galliwasp Louisiana Pine Snake Rearing Barrens Topminnows, Conservation Initiative Fundulus julisia, for Hellbender Conservation Purposes Tapir Symposium

Nashville Crayfish Systematics and Cryptic Zoo Conservation Outreach Biodiversity in Sculpins of the Puerto Rican Crested Toad Group Rocky Mountains Tapir Radio Collar to Costa Rica Tennessee Lake Sturgeon Reintroduction Program A Pilot Investigation of Vitamin Ripley’s Aquarium of the A Metabolism in Golden Frogs Smokies (Atelopus zeteki) and Marine Adopt - The - Spur TEXAS Toads (Bufo marinus) and Appropriate Supplementation Apex Predator Tagging Study Methods. Bioencapsulation of Assessing Relationships among Arthur A. Seeligson Jr. Fenbendazole in Adult Dominance Status, Conservation Fund Artemia Testosterone Concentrations, and Ovarian Acyclicity in Assessment of Annual Bioencapsulation of African Elephants Reproductive Cycle of a Metronidazole in Adult Breeding Female Jaguar Using Artemia Conservation genetics of the Fecal Steroid Hormone North American Box Turtles Analysis Bioencapsulation of Praziquantel in Adult Artemia Genetic Defense against Disease Behavioral Analysis of a in Captive and Wild Elephants Jamaican Iguana Pair during Plasma Chemistry Database for Breeding Season Sand Tiger Sharks What causes Hyperprolactinemia in Noncycling African Cryptobranchid Interest Group River Clean Up Elephants? Possible role of Estrogens Development of an Elephant Sea Turtle Reproductive Hand Rearing Resource Center Physiology Freshwater Turtle Population Use of Ultrasonography in Trends and Health in Texas’ Managing Reproductive Priority Ecoregions

28 2009 AZA Conservation Projects

Jamaican Iguana Conservation National Marine and Reintroduction Project National Marine Sanctuary Texas State Aquarium Mountain Bongo Repatriation to Foundation Adopt-A-Beach Mount Kenya World Heritage Site The Shark Spine Study AZA Amphibian Fund - Contribution Puerto Rican Crested Toad SSP WildAid Conservation Endowment Fund Turks and Caicos Caribbean Wildlife Alliance (CEF) - Contribution Flamingo Project World Parrot Trust Ethotrak Understanding the Interaction between Nutrition, Activity Sea Turtle and Reproduction in Captive Conservation Program - Asian Elephants San Antonio Zoological Kemp's Ridley Project

Society Keepers of the Coast Club African Wild Dog Conservation Fossil Rim Wildlife Center Donation Redfish Grow-out Pond Assistance to IRF Rhino Conservation Medicine Amphibian Monitoring Project SeaLab Wildscape Garden Program Attwater’s Prairie Chicken AZA Butterfly Conservation Sensational Sustainable Seafood Database Initiative Donation - Promoting Wise Seafood Choices Characterization of Circulating Colobus Trust Donation Nutritional Profiles in Captive Signal Meaning and Long-term Maned Wolves (Chrysocyon Costa Rica Amphibian Research Social Recognition of brachyurus) Center Donation Vocalizations in Tursiops truncatus Hoofstock Management , Inc. Donation Sunset Lake Invaders: Invasive Improving Cheetah Health by Gilman International Species Monitoring Linking Physiologic and Conservation's Epulu Project Behavioral Stress Metrics to Donation Wildlife Rehabilitation Program Management Habitat Restoration around Test for Normal Development of Bracken Bat Cave Gastrointestinal Structure and VIRGINIA Immune Function in Life History Traits of Crotalus Endangered Attwater's Prairie polystictus: A Long-term, Mark-recapture Study Virginia Living Museum

Butterfly Project Invasive Plant Species Living Planet Foundation

Management and Habitat Donation Conservation Garden Restoration

Madagascar Fauna Group Earth Weekend Native Grassland Restoration Donation

National Elephant Center Intergenerational Elderhostel Donation Living Green Demonstration Landry’s Downtown Snow Leopard Trust Donation Building Aquarium – Houston Armand Bayou Nature Center Tomistoma Task Force Donation Red Wolf Recovery Project

Friends of the Sea Turtle Survival Alliance Donation School Education Programs (grades K-12) GHCAAZK – Bowling for Rhinos Using Youth-Intern Teams to Increase the Effective Delivery Seafood Watch Houston Arboretum of Action-Oriented Conservation Messages VLM Representation on the Houston Audubon Society Virginia Cave Board Zoo Conservation Outreach Kickady SCUBA Group Donation Waters Creek Watershed Cleanup

29 2009 AZA Conservation Projects

Wildlife Rehabilitation Oregon Spotted Frog Northern Sea Otter (Enhydra Headstarting and Release lutris kenyoni) Conservation Endocrinology PDZA Green Team Northern Sea Otter (Enhydra WASHINGTON Project Seahorse lutris kenyoni) Pup Rehabilitation Rockfish Surveys Documenting Point Defiance Zoo and Shifting Ecosystems Octopus Senescence Aquarium Acres for the Atmosphere: Pilot Sabangau Felid Project Puget Sound – Sixgill Shark Year Actions Research and Conservation Sixgill Shark Abundance and Project Blue-Throated Macaw Distribution in Puget Sound Conservation Project River otter ( canadiensis) Southeast Asia Wild Cat Fecal Testosterone Bornean Wild Cat and Clouded Education Initiative Leopard Project Seafood Watch Status and Conservation Needs “Climate Change: Connections of the Sea Otter (Enhydra lutris) and Solutions” 5th-12th Grade ( diardi) on Borneo: A Population Genetics Teacher Workshop Comprehensive Threat & Distribution Assessment, Sixgill shark (Hexanchus griseus) Clouded Leopards and Small including Implications for Acoustic Tagging Cats of Sumatra: Conflict Regional and Transnational Mitigation in the Face of a Habitat Connectivity Sixgill shark (Hexanchus griseus) Quickly Rising Human Diver Sighting Database Population Survey for Small Felid Species in Select Thailand Reserves and Sixgill shark (Hexanchus griseus) Clouded Leopard Breeding in Evidence for Competitive Population Genetics Khao Kheow Zoo Exclusion by Larger Felids Sixgill shark (Hexanchus griseus) Comprehensive Social Marketing Turtles & Trash in Tompotika - Visual Marker Tagging Approach to Reducing Global Turning the Tide Climate Change Teacher Training Use of Non-Invasive Consequences of Different Endocrinology at PDZA for Washington Sea Otter (Enhydra Forest Management Strategies Animal Management lutris) Annual Census for Clouded Leopards and Other Felids and Viverrids in Wild Cats Education Week , Malaysia Festival Woodland Park Zoo Conservation Genetics of African Village Threatened and Endangered Cultural/Interpretive Programs Bornean Wild Cats in Sabah, Seattle Aquarium Malaysia Alcid (Sea Bird) Reproductive Barn Swallow Reproductive Physiology Success and Nest Site Fidelity Coral Growth and Conservation at Woodland Park Zoo through Propagation and Citizen Science Intense Light Botswana Wild Dog Research Hawaii Reef Study Project Developing Conservation Response Units in Sumatra Larval Rearing of Puget Sound Conservation Connections: Teleosts Docent Program Establishing Endocrine and Behavioral Parameters of Leafy Sea Dragon (Phycodorus Conservation of the Rufous- Reproduction in Captive eques) Population Genetics necked Hornbill, Aceros Pacific nipalenis, and its Montane Loss of Genetic Diversity in Sea Forest Habitat in Thailand Factors Affecting Reproduction Otters (Enhydra lutris) in the Red Wolf Associated with the Fur Trade Forest Explorers th th of the 18 and 19 Centuries Monitoring Introduced Oregon Formation of a Sun Bear Expert Spotted Frogs and Its Habitat Neah Bay Reef Video Survey Team in Malaysia at Fort Lewis Grizzly Bear Outreach Project

30 2009 AZA Conservation Projects

Habitat Ramblers Western Pond Turtle Recovery Project Hornbill Nest Adoptions in Thailand Wildlife and People in Kenya: Waterholes Project Hutan (KOCP) Elephant Conservation Wild Wise

Indonesian Veterinary Training ZATPAC Program Zoo Corps Inspiration to Action Programs: Backyard Habitat Workshops Zoo Edition

International Bug Club: Papua Zoo Experiences for Students New Guinea and Teachers (ZEST)

International Snow Leopard Trust WISCONSIN Licton Springs Conservation and Restoration Project

Mbeli Bai Gorilla Study Racine Zoological Gardens Andean Bear, Northwester Muraviovka Park for Sustainable Ecuador Land Use Andean Condor, South American NW Amphibian Recovery Project and Patagonian Coast

Orangutan Habitat Protection Beach Sweep / International and Patrolling in Gunung Coastal Cleanup Palung National Park Butler’s Garter Snake Partnerships for the World: Demographic Study International Field Training Programs in Conservation Desert Flamingos, Northern Chile’s Atacama Desert Partulid Global Species Management Programme Educational Programs

Raptor Ecology of the Shrub- Effects of Invasive Species and Steppe Interspecific Competition on the Endemic and Possibilities Ready, Set, Discover for Captive Propagation

Reptiles on Wheels & Bugs on Ornate Box Turtle Headstart Wheels Program

School to Zoo SSP Mark Recapture Study on a Michigan Population of Silverspot Butterfly Eastern Massasauga Conservation Project Rattlesnakes Small Grants – Jaguar Conservation Fund Torhorst Wildlife Conservation Fund SOAR (Save Our Amazing Raptors) Tree Boa Demographic Study

Tarangire National Park Elephant Project

Teacher Training

Tree Kangaroo Conservation Program

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