AZA Ungulate TAGs
2025 Mid-Year Meeting

Held in conjunction with the AZA Mid-Year Meeting
24-27 March 2023
Hosted by The Living Desert Zoo and Gardens, Palm Springs CA

Stay connected: join the Ungulate TAG Community!

The Ungulate TAGs share a joint community on the AZA Network. It is a great way to connect with other members of the ungulate community to share successes, ask questions, and provide feedback. Registration is free, even if you are not an AZA member.

First, sign up as a user on this page:
https://ams.aza.org/eweb/DynamicPage.aspx?webcode=newuserreg

Then find Ungulate TAG in the list of Communities, or follow this link:
https://network.aza.org/communities/community-home?CommunityKey=8c85a34f-9300-4eea-80f5-172a3a010c39

TAG Meeting Presentations

The full Ungulate TAG meeting agenda can be downloaded here.

*Please note that some presentations are not available online, or are only available in a modified version, due to the presence of unpublished data or sensitive information.

Ungulate TAG Chair Briefings

• Antelope, Cattle, Giraffid, and Camelid (ACGC) TAG

• Deer & Caprinae TAG

• Equid TAG

• Hippo, Peccary, Pig, and Tapir TAG

• Rhino TAG

TAG Initiatives & AZA Updates

• Welcome slides and housekeeping

• Ungulate Resource Group (URG)

• Ungulate Conservation Task Force

• Ungulate Animal Care Manual Update

• Ungulate Profiles 2.0

• Treasurer report

• AZA Curator Capacity

• APM Structure and SSP Assessment Process Updates - Mike Murray

• C2S2/SPA/Partnership for Species - Dan Beetem

• Small Antelope Working Group - Dan Dembiec & JT Svoke

  • SAWG Breakout group notes - Ashley Roberts

• Bison SAFE Update - Ed Spevak

• Action Indonesia GSMP Update - JT Svoke

Field Conservation Session

• Tall Tales: 14 years of our research, education, and action for Masai giraffes in Tanzania (Prerecorded) - Dr. Monica Bond, WIld Nature Institute

• Critically Endangered Wild Camel (Camelus ferus) in Mongolia (Prerecorded) - Dr. Anna Jemmett

• Recovering the Mountain Bongo (Tragelaphus eurycerus isaaci) in Kenya Through Breeding and Rewilding - Dr. Robert Aruho

• Facing a conservation crisis: free-roaming dog attacks and screw worm infections in endangered mountain tapirs (Tapirus pinchaque) from protected cloud forests of Colombia (Prerecorded) - Juan Camilo Cepeda Duque

• A spatial and genetic analysis of lowland tapirs in the dry Chaco Forest in Paraguay - Emily Alice Bowers

Lost Skills/ Transport Session

• Informal query the AZA Reproductive Management Center put on what skills have been lost - Dave Powell, St Louis Zoo

• Small Ungulate Management at San Diego Zoo Safari Park - Jon Rolfs, SDZSP

• “Unorthodox” Ungulate Capture and Restraint at Fossil Rim - Molly Shea, Fossil Rim Wildlife Center

• Hoof Care Team to better serve the animals and staff at both of our campuses, the San Diego Zoo and the San Diego Zoo Safari Park - Ashley Roberts, SDZWA

• Recipe for Success: A Rhino Transport Story - Leigh Ramon, Mesker Park Zoo

• Staff Empathy and Ungulate Resilience - Linda Penfold, SEZARC

Ungulate Ignite Session/General Husbandry

• Managing Seasonal Urinary Health Complications in 1.0 Reticulated Giraffe at the Oakland Zoo - Leslie Rao, Oakland Zoo

• Incisor Insider: An Overview of the Hippo Dental Program at Disney’s Animal Kingdom - Erin McGee, Disney’s Animal Kingdom

• Effective and Repeatable Collection of Oocytes from Scimitar Horned Oryx (Oryx dammah) - Parker Pennington, Colossal Biosciences

• Results from the AZA Giraffe Health Survey (2022-2023) - Liza Dadone

• Successful giraffe radiographs and joint injections in pasture without sedation at Fossil Rim - Molly Shea, Fossil Rim Wildlife Center

• Ten Years of Artiodactylid Dystocia at San Diego Zoo Safari Park: Interventions, Outcomes, and Future Considerations (Meredith Clancy)

• From Plans to Pastures - Saint Louis Zoo Wildcare Park - Joshua Sydney-Smith, St Louis Zoo Wildcare Park Scholarship winner

• Our Pronghorn Does His Own Stunts: Creative Problem Solving in a Broken Leg Story - Claire Mizner, ZooAmerica Scholarship winner

• Ungulate Management - Steve Metzler, Colossal Biosciences

Rhino TAG Proceedings

The Rhino TAG meeting agenda can be downloaded here.

General Updates

• Rhino TAG + SSP Updates

• IRF Update

• AIRS Update

Topic Talks

• Bull presence influences fecal progesterone values in managed female white rhinos (Ceratotherium simum) - Dr. Shauni Windle, CREW

• Prolactin’s use as a reproductive biomarker: Data from AIRS - Elizabeth Donelan, CREW

• Botanical characterization of in situ and ex situ black rhinoceros diets with implications for sustainable ex situ populations - Dr. Molly Loy, SCBI

• The Hand-Rearing and Social Integration of a Greater One-Horned Rhinoceros (Rhinoceros unicornis) Calf at The Wilds - Cody Cseplo, The Wilds

• Indonesian Rhino Conservation Biobanking and ART Update - Steve Metzler, Colossal Biosciences

• Ovum Pickup in the Southern White Rhinoceros: A Strategic Approach for Conservation - Dr. Elena Ruggeri, SDZWA

Rhino Research Council

• Welcome - Terri Roth

• RRC - Health - Julie Swenson

• RRC - Nutrition - Katie Sullivan

• RRC - Reproduction - Monica Stoops

• RRC - Behavior and Wellbeing - Elizabeth Freeman

• RRC - Management - Adam Eyres

• RRC - In Situ - Terri Roth