July/August 2011
Information for Contributors
From the Editor/Sponsor Acknowledgements
Opening the Corral Gates!
TAG - You’re It!
Animal Management Support for Wild Equid Research at the Wilds
Teaching Young Giraffe Old Tricks: Changing Learned Behaviors in a Herd of Captive Giraffe
Ruminant Browser Nutrition Workshop (A Synopsis)
Practical Considerations for Restraint of Hoofed Mammals in a Small Zoo
Inventing the Wheel: Hand-Rearing a Single Babirusa (Babyrousa babyrussa)
Here There Be Dragons: Okapi Conservation in Africa’s Equatorial Forest
Zoo Atlanta’s Hoofstock Enrichment Program
Managing Ungulates in Mixed-Species Exhibits at Disney’s Animal Kingdom
Ungulate TAGs Connecting with Keepers: An Update
A Voice for Captive Prey Species
Managing Moose in Captivity
Easy Bison Enrichment in a Cash Strapped Economy
The Way Home: Moving a Herd of 1.6 Reticulated Giraffe into a New Facility
Caring for African Ungulates in a Winter Climate
Rearing Antelope: Three Thriving Examples at the Saint Louis Zoo
Walking a Mile in Their Hooves: Managing Desert Bighorn Sheep (Ovis canadensis mexicana) in Natural Exhibits
Ungulate TAG Meetings and Conferences: We Want You!
Candid Camera: Using Camera Traps to Monitor Animal Behavior
Porcine Perfection: Red River Hogs in Mixed-Species Exhibits
The Tapir Paper
Striving for Sustainability: The Ungulate Manager’s Toolbox
Managing a Reticulated Giraffe (Giraffe camelopardalis) with Allergies
Ungulates Websites of Interest
Training Przewalski’s Horses Using Protected Contact in a Facility with Limited Resources
Training the “untrainable”: Using Natural Behavior and Positive Reinforcement to Train Husbandry Behaviors in a Gerenuk (Litacranius walleri)
Goat Lab - Evolution of a Training Class
Elevating Warthog Care Through Training
What’s This Ungulate Care Workshop I’ve Been Hearing So Much About?
Freezing Browse for Year-round Feeding of Giraffe and Other Hoofstock
Rhinoceros Enrichment
Managing a Research Population of an Extremely Flighty Ungulate Species at SCBI
Hoof Management of Hartmann’s Mountain Zebra at Disney’s Animal Kingdom Lodge
Moving Onward and Upward: Building a Contemporary Giraffe Facility
Creating New Tools to Reduce Fearful Behavior with Three Ungulate Species at the Oakland Zoo
Tactiles - The Transition from a Behavior to a Reinforcer: A Case Study of 1.0 Grant’sZebra (Equus burchellii) at the Oakland Zoo
Bongo Calf Splaying and Coxofemoral Luxation
Benefits of Goal-Based Behavioral Husbandry for Captive Bovid and Cervid Species
Ungulate Care Workshops (information and contacts)