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Species360 Insights

This course provides and introduction to Species360 Insights data – a view into the world’s largest collection of data on animals in human care.

Aggregated, Anonymous Data: A Species360 Insights subscription provides online access to pooled analytics from the Zoological Information Management System database, representing thousands of species, summarizing millions of records. Data included is aggregated at the species level, all individual animal and institutional holding data has been anonymized. Topics in this course include…

Husbandry Data:  Species Event History, Species Holding, Animal Age Distribution, Weight Comparison Report, Taxon Advisory Group Export, Population Overview, Global Holdings by Animal Type.


Medical Data:  Anesthesia Summaries, Drug Usage by Type, Expected Blood Test Results.

Population Data: Global Studbook Search Tool

Sustainable Livelihoods

The Introduction to Sustainable Livelihoods Course is designed to assist learners in their understanding of what sustainable livelihoods are, explore diverse sustainable livelihood initiatives, and review the enabling conditions for successful community enterprises. The course covers the core concepts of developing a partnership with communities and other parties for the effective development of sustainable livelihoods. 

Duration: 2.5 hours


ZIMS for Aquarists and Keepers V2
This course is aimed at zoological animal care staff, and aims to provide the skills to enter daily aquarist and keeper information into ZIMS. 


The enrollment key for the course is available to current ZIMS users, click here access the key now: https://training.species360.org/


In version 2:

  • Animal Care
  • Tools and Reports 
  • Enclosure Care 

ZIMS for Enclosure Care
This course is aimed at zoological animal care staff, and aims to provide the skills to enter daily aquarist and keeper information into ZIMS, specifically for the Enclosure Module.


The enrollment key for the course is available to users who have completed the ZIMS for Aquarists and Keepers course version 1.

If you have completed the ZIMS for Aquarists and Keepers course V2, then you do not need to complete this course as the content is already incorporated into version 2.

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