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Please use this template to assemble information on animal exhibits to be presented. ZooLex animal exhibit presentations contain up to 25 pictures and 1500 words.

Using this template offline facilitates filling in ZooLex submission forms online. You may use it in your html editor or import it to your word processing program. For uploading your text to the ZooLex website, just open your completed template in one window and ZooLex online forms in a window next to it and copy and paste the text from your template into ZooLex online forms.

Alternatively, you may send the completed template as an email attachment or by mail on a disc. We will publish your information provided on a ZooLex template for free. Our address:

Form 1 

LOCATION  (ZOO): Official name of institution: ...
Mail address: ...
Phone (country code, city code, local no.): ...
Fax: ...
URL: http://
Email address (For our reference, not to be published): ...
Person responsible for this submission (Please give official name and contact of the institution.): ...

Form 2   

Name of animal exhibit:
KEYWORDS (exhibit topic, message, etc., terms you would use to search for this exhibit):

ANIMALS for which exhibit is designed (the max. number of animals that can be held in the exhibit should be given in the format 'males.females.young', for example, 1.2.4):

Families (Taxonomy)	Species (Scientific name)	Common name	Max. number

AWARDS gained:

Year	Name of Award

Form 3  

SIZE of exhibit:
Please describe space allocation. If the exhibit is part of a larger entity, please state the size of the whole entity as well: ...
 
  Please give dimensions of exhibit areas. Accessible areas are those that can be physically used (usually not planting beds, water moats, etc.). The total exhibit area will include these spaces. Please estimate when figures are not known.

use	indoors		outdoors		total exhibit
	accessible	total	accessible	total
animals
visitors
others
total

COSTS of exhibit:
Estimate for total exhibit costs: ...        currency: ...
Estimate for design costs as ....% of total costs.
Please describe allocation of means for design, construction and maintainance: ...

Form 4   
 

	Year	Month	Day
Beginning of DESIGN
Beginning of CONSTRUCTION
OPENING DATE

Design Firms (email and fax numbers are for ZooLex use only):

Task	Name	Location	Email/Fax

Construction Firms (email and fax numbers are for ZooLex use only):

Task	Name	Location	Email/Fax

LOCAL CONDITIONS
We will upload appropriate diagram.
 

Form 6 

PLANTS:
Please describe the intentions for choosing certain plant species and if existing plants on the site were preserved: ...
 

Please list the scientific (Latin) names of plants actually growing in and around the exhibit.
Add (V) for species only used in visitor areas, add (A) for species only used in animal areas.

Trees	Shrubs	Vines	Others

Form 7 

Please give a general DESCRIPTION of the exhibit stating its purpose and goals. (What is the layout of the exhibit? What are the main features? Was the design a part of a master plan? Was it a renovation of an existing building?)
 

Form 8   

Please give descriptions of exhibit FEATURES DEDICATED TO

THE ANIMAL in the exhibit (supporting the animals' physical and psychological well-being): ...
 

THE KEEPER in charge of the exhibit (providing security and convenience for keepers): ...
 

THE VISITOR to the exhibit (features that contribute to visitor safety, comfort and entertainment): ...
 
 

Form 9   

INTERPRETATION (devices for education about and interpretation of the exhibit, provisions taken to increase visitor attention, motivation or ability to grasp information): ...
 

MANAGEMENT (maintenance of the exhibit and how the design accommodates shifting animals and behavior enrichment): ...
 

RESEARCH (projects relating to the exhibit such as evaluation of animals or visitor behavior): ...
 

Form 10  

CONSERVATION (efforts to save the wild population of the animal exhibited or efforts to save natural resources within construction, operation, and maintenance of the exhibit): ...
 

LOCAL RESOURCES (efforts to involve local people and to include local resources in the design, construction and operation of the exhibit): ...
 

Form 11 

(all images in jpg or gif format, RGB colors, max. 800x800 pixel, 100 kB)

OVERVIEW PLAN (map of whole zoo, with location of this exhibit highlighted)
Copyright by:
Year:
Description of Image:

SITE PLAN (illustrative plan of the exhibit with north arrow and scale)
Copyright by:
Year:
Description of Image:

PICTURE VIEWS (copy of the site plan with numbers where each picture below was taken)
Copyright by:
Year:
Description of Image:

Up to 25 pictures in jpg format, RGB colors, max. 800x800 pixel, 100 kB.
First picture should be a nice animal picture in landscape format. This picture will represent your exhibit in the index of exhibit presentations in the ZooLex Gallery. Other pictures should show views of outdoor and indoor enclosures, details (rockwork, signage, plants), animals and visitors using the facilities, and pictures of off-exhibit areas.

Picture no. 1:
Title:
Copyright by:
Year:
Description of Image:

Picture no. 2:
Title:
Copyright by:
Year:
Description of Image:

Picture no. 3:
Title:
Copyright by:
Year:
Description of Image:

Picture no. 4:
Title:
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Description of Image:

Picture no. 5:
Title:
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Description of Image:

Picture no. 6:
Title:
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Description of Image:

Picture no. 7:
Title:
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Description of Image:

Picture no. 8
Title:
Copyright by:
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Description of Image:

Picture no. 9
Title:
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Description of Image:

Picture no. 10:
Title:
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Description of Image:

Picture no. 11:
Title:
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Picture no. 12:
Title:
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Picture no. 24:
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Picture no. 25:
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