Zoo Vet
Tired of being a veterinarian in that little zoo? Or just want to practice wild animal medicine? Now you can be a vet in a world-class zoo! You can do some practice on 30 different animals. An elephant with a footh infection, a pregnant (?) penguin, and so on. You might even get a promotion if they discover your skills!

Find out more on the Zoo Vet game. And check out the onlin demo.

Zoo Tycoon
For game adicted zoo veterinarians with ambitions to become zoo directors.

Obviously the population of ambitious veterinarians is quite large, since even Microsoft has discovered this market. For anyone who wants to prepare for the tough job of a zoo director they have developed the game Zoo Tycoon. For your prenomination-training visit Zoo Tycoon.

New developments in reptile nutrition: There has been a recent climax in the never ending discussion about advantage and disadvantage of behavioural enrichment activities in zoo collections. There is no doubt that, in crocodiles, the feeding of dogs stimulates the natural behaviour, but on the other side this widely known habit might create serious health problems: According to a recent paper presented at the first European Zoo Nutrition Meting it cannot be recommended to feed crocodiles on a diet based on chondrodystophic breeds like Dachshund (German sausage), Bullies (French bulldog) or Bessets. Certain post mortem findings in various species of Alligatoridae and Crocodylidae indicate this unbalanced food to be the main cause of rickets. The diet composition should be adjusted to species specific nutritional requirements by adding commercial Ca-supplement or, if available, sliced Ridgeback, Alsatian or Spitz.