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Animal Behavior 2: Application of Animal Behavior Research in Zoos and Aquariums |
1.00 |
Modern accredited zoos and aquariums strive to use behavioral data to make many management decisions about the animals under their professional care. This course will provide an overview of many different uses of animal behavior in a zoological setting, including the ability to examine indicators of animal welfare. |
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Animal Behavior 3: Experimenter, Observer, and Sampling Bias |
1.00 |
This course will give an overview of different types of bias that can impact a study on animal behavior. Information contained in this course will help ensure observers are aware of how experimenter, observer, and sampling bias can impact data collection and analysis, and of precautions to consider and take before starting a study. |
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Animal Behavior 4: Reliability and Validity |
1.00 |
This course will help ensure that the data you collect in animal behavior research is repeatable, consistent, and actually measures the features of a target behavior. This is called reliability and validity. |
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Animal Nutrition |
2.00 |
This interactive course presents a dietary case study and then teaches you the basics needed to manage similar nutritional challenges. After completing the course, you will be able to name basic nutrients, understand feeding ecologies, explain differences in species’ digestive tracts, identify standard animal feeds, and understand how body condition is measured. In addition to having a better grasp of the science behind nutrition, you will learn about the storage and preparation of diets, safe food handling techniques, and how to ensure food is safe for animals. |
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Animal Show Development |
1.00 |
This program will provide information about how best to present animals to your guests. We will discuss different types of programs including informal animal encounters, a free flight bird show, a cheetah run program and a mixed species show, including sea lions. For each type of program, we will discuss staffing, collection planning and production, such as sound and props. We will also talk about scripting in general and especially responsible messaging. |
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Animal Welfare - General Audience - Short Course |
0.33 |
The public’s interest in animal welfare is increasing. This short course is designed for all non-animal care staff and features the same but condensed content as presented in the original Animal Welfare Professional version. This short version aims to educate non-animal care staff about animal welfare, how it is measured on a continuum from good to poor and about our efforts to ensure our animals are thriving. Staff who interact with our guests, are ideally positioned to share this important information with our guests. This fast-paced, 20-minute course is designed to equip our employees with key information on the subject of animal welfare. |
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Animal Welfare Course General |
1.00 |
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Animal Welfare Professional |
2.00 |
This course will increase your understand of animal welfare, as well as best practices to help ensure high levels of welfare for the animals within your professional care. Upon completion of the course, you will be able to: define animal welfare and describe the animal welfare continuum, name at least three laws/acts pertaining to animal welfare and how they contributed to improving the welfare of animals, define stress, identify the difference between acute and chronic stress and their relationship to animal welfare, identify why it is important to focus on both positive and negative indicators of animal welfare, identify the differences between inputs and outputs for animal welfare, identify three potential positive indicators of animal welfare, identify three potential negative indicators of animal welfare, compare/contrast the Five Freedoms and the Five Opportunities to Thrive, Identify three three best practices to help ensure high levels of welfare, identify three benefits of ensuring high levels of welfare, be able to differentiate between subjective, opinion-based animal welfare concerns and objective, evidence-based animal welfare concerns, define animal rights, and identify the difference between animal welfare and animal rights. |
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Animal Welfare Spanish |
1.00 |
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Anti-Discrimination Law: A Primer for Small Businesses |
0.75 |
There are multiple federal laws regarding discrimination in the workplace.
Beginning with the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the U.S. Congress has passed a number of laws to address various forms of discrimination. The Fair Housing Act of 1968, for example, prohibited discrimination concerning the sale, rental, and financing of housing based on race, religion, national origin, sex, (and as amended) handicap (later called disability), and family status. In 1990, the Americans With Disabilities Act (ADA) was passed to protect the rights of individuals who are differently enabled, physically or mentally. Other laws, or amendments made to existing laws, provided further protections for people with disabilities, workers over the age of 40, and LGBTQ+ individuals, among others.
The purpose of this course, however, is not to give a history lesson on U.S. anti-discrimination law but to focus on how those laws apply today to small businesses, their employees, and their customers. |
