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Hi Ben,

Thanks for your feedback.  I'll check their website for a copy of the
publication.  Right now we don't have any mammals and so are a bit outside
of USDA jurisdiction.

We've been thinking of staying outside of USDA licensing just because we've
heard it can be a real hassle. How rigorous do you find their inspections to
be?  What if any are the benefits and/or draw backs to being classified as
an exhibitor?

Thanks for your insights!

Sara





Sara DeAngelis
Project Manager/Lead Exhibit Developer
Brooklyn Children¹s Museum
145 Brooklyn Ave.
Brooklyn, NY 11213

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Keep you love of nature, for that is the true way to understand art and
more.
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> From: Ben Randell <[log in to unmask]>
> Reply-To: Informal Science Education Network <[log in to unmask]>
> Date: Fri, 18 Feb 2005 14:44:55 -0600
> To: <[log in to unmask]>
> Subject: Re: Live Animal Policies
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> ISEN-ASTC-L is a service of the Association of Science-Technology Centers
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> Sara,
> 
> At Science City, we have a Nature Center that isn't quite a "living
> collection."  It's more a rag tag group exotic pet rejects.  (No one
> should tell Piggy, our hairless guinea pig I said that though!!!)  We
> are licensed by the USDA as an "exhibitor."  We have produced our animal
> care protocol from the USDA's "Animal Welfare Act and Animal Welfare
> Regulations" a publication that you could easily get from the USDA.
> 
> Good Luck,
> 
> -- 
> Ben Randell
> Program Specialist
> Science City @ Union Station
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> twelve-year-old can understand it, one should remain within the
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> better grasp of one's subject matter.
> 
> -- Margaret Mead
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> 
> 
> Sara DeAngelis wrote:
> 
>> ISEN-ASTC-L is a service of the Association of Science-Technology Centers
>> Incorporated, a worldwide network of science museums and related
>> institutions.
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>> Hello,
>> 
>> 
>> I'm looking for information on how science museums approach their live
>> animal collections.  Specifically, I'm interested in if other museums have
>> formal animal policies in place.  We're in the process of developing a
>> Living Collection Policy (parallel to the one we have for our natural
>> science and cultural collections.)  I'd like to see some other examples to
>> compare with our own.  (AZA has guidelines but they are a bit beyond where
>> we are aiming.) 
>> 
>> Thanks in advance for sharing recommendations and examples!
>> 
>> 
>> Sara DeAngelis
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> Sara DeAngelis
>> Project Manager/Lead Exhibit Developer
>> Brooklyn Children¹s Museum
>> 145 Brooklyn Ave.
>> Brooklyn, NY 11213
>> 
>> p. 718 735-4400 x149
>> c. 718 578-8269
>> e. [log in to unmask]
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>> One touch of nature makes the whole world kin.
>>                                                                - Wm.
>> Shakespeare
>> 
>> Keep you love of nature, for that is the true way to understand art and
>> more.
>>                                                                - Vincent
>> Van Gogh
>> 
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