Lincoln Park Zoo

The Lincoln Park Zoo will partner with the State University of New York at Binghamton’s Research Foundation to develop Ethosearch: The Ethogram Archive Project (EAP), a Web-based database tool that will be of critical value to zoological managers, researchers, and students. The database will be a searchable, open, clearly defined, and accessible tool. Ethograms, the behavioral patterns of an organism or a species, represent the fundamental basis of animal behavioral research. A collection of standardized behavioral information on animal species in zoological parks is needed, and the Lincoln Park Zoo will initiate compilation and standardization of ethograms beginning with two groups, primates and birds. The completed project will be disseminated through conferences, college courses, and training workshops.