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Research at <strong>Ostrava</strong> <strong>Zoo</strong> in <strong>2009</strong><br />
Jan Pluháček<br />
During <strong>2009</strong> we continued in our two projects that started in the past (Suckling behaviour in equids and<br />
Suckling behaviour in common hippopotamus) in cooperation with the Institute of Animal Science in Prague<br />
and Dvůr Králové <strong>Zoo</strong>. <strong>The</strong> first results of these projects should be published in the following year.<br />
In July <strong>2009</strong>, our zoo published the third edition of the European studbook for common hippopotamus<br />
(Hippopotamus amphibius). We improved data in the studbook dealing with current population as well as data<br />
concerning of the individuals living in Europe in the past. To the end of the 2008 the current common hippo<br />
population consists of 198 specimens kept in 73 institutions. During 2008, 13 births occurred, 5 of these died<br />
within the same year. A further 8 animals died during the year. Important changes occurred also with the herd<br />
of hippos kept in our zoo, however these changes are summarised in the other text of this annual report.<br />
During <strong>2009</strong> we attended 2 international and 1 national congresses where we presented several talks and/<br />
or posters (see Table 1).<br />
Table 1. List of abstracts and presence of the <strong>Zoo</strong> employees<br />
at the scientific congresses in <strong>2009</strong>.<br />
Congress<br />
30 th International Ethological<br />
Conference<br />
26 th EAZA <strong>Annual</strong> Conference<br />
36 th Czech and Slovak Ethological<br />
Conference<br />
Place and date<br />
of the congress<br />
Rennes, France,<br />
August 19 th -24 th<br />
Copenhagen, Denmark,<br />
September 15 th -20 th<br />
Kostelec nad Černými lesy<br />
November 12 th -15 th<br />
Title of abstract<br />
Mother-offspring conflict in<br />
captive plains zebra: the suckling<br />
bout duration.<br />
Common hippopotamus<br />
Hippopotamus amphibius European<br />
studbook <strong>2009</strong>; Effect of<br />
external stimuli on enrichment<br />
in captive chimpanzees (Pan<br />
troglodytes): a case study.<br />
Mother-offspring conflict in<br />
captive plains zebra: the suckling<br />
bout duration.<br />
Table 2 summarises the species kept in our zoo and involved in research projects during the year of <strong>2009</strong> by<br />
researchers either from <strong>Ostrava</strong> <strong>Zoo</strong> or from other institutions. <strong>The</strong> amount of research projects carried out in<br />
our zoo during <strong>2009</strong> was higher than those recorded per year from 2006 to 2008. Some of the projects listed<br />
in the Table 2 are long-term projects collecting data from our zoo in several consecutive years. One of the<br />
projects collecting data in our zoo resulted in the publication of scientific during the year <strong>2009</strong> (Pomajbíková<br />
et al. 2010). This project was focused on the entodiniomorphid ciliates in captive chimpanzees and bonobos<br />
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