Elephants Elephants - Wildpro - Twycross Zoo

ELEPHANT TAG SURVEY
(Please continue any questions on separate sheet if necessary)
Name of Institution: ______________________________ Date:_________________
Completed by: ___________________________ Position: _____________________
Director’s signature: _______________________________________________________
Number of Elephants in your collection:
(1)Asian ______ (M) ______ (F) (1)African ______ (M) ______ (F)
(1) Please also complete the sheets called ‘Male’ and ‘Female’ for each animal in your
collection
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General
1 Do you have a copy of the ‘Management Guidelines for the Welfare of Zoo
Animals - Elephants’? Yes No (if ‘No’
please contact Zoo Federation)
2 How many elephant staff do you have?
Please list for each member of staff the number of years service
3 What is the minimum number of staff required to work with the elephants at
any one time?
4 Do you have written training procedures for your elephant staff? Yes No
Please contact TAG if assistance is required.
5 Do you have written Risk Assessments for working with elephants? Yes No
Do you have written Risk Assessments for each elephant? Yes No
Do you have written Risk Assessments for each member Yes No
of staff per elephant?
6 If ‘Yes’ to any of Question 3 above, how often are these reviewed:
Six monthly? Yearly? Other (please explain)?
7 Do you have written elephant personality profiles? Yes No
If ‘Yes’ how often are these reviewed:
Six monthly? Yearly? Other (please explain)?
8 Do your staff use an ankus? Yes No
9 Are your staff aware of the SOP 3.12 in the guidelines? Yes No
10 Do you have an electric goad or ‘hot shot’ within your collection? Yes No
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