advantages

Nutritional disorders are not always detected in a timely fashion. Often, nutrient deficiencies and/or toxicities are detected only long after nutritional imbalances have occurred or at postmortem exam. It is known that captive animals can adapt to suboptimal diets during long periods of time as long as other stressing factors do not appear (for example, environmental changes, diseases or reproduction). Animals with unsuitable diets may even reproduce, resulting in these diets being incorporated as standards. Nutrition is only one of the interrelated factors that determines animal welfare. If any of these factors fail, animal health may be compromised and with it our mission to preserve endangered species. Good nutrition is directly related to longevity, disease prevention, growth and reproduction. Therefore, a balanced diet can be highly beneficial both to the animal and the institution:
		Radiograph showing lesions of nutritional bone disease (bowing of ulnae) in a brown capuchin

Improves animal welfare and thus contributes to education, research and conservation. ! Minimizes the incidence of health disorders due to deficiency or excess of a particular nutrient (such as nutritional bone disease, hemosiderosis, perosis, obesity or infertility). ! Increases natural feeding behaviors, thus avoiding the appearance of diseases affecting the structures adapted to foraging (for instance, beak, claw or tooth overgrowth or oral infections). ! Decreases or even eliminates abnormal behaviors that could have a direct or indirect nutritional basis (stereotypic behaviors, regurgitation, coprophagy, cannibalism, or self-mutilation). Squirrel Monkey with zinc-responsive pododermatitis ! Decreases social stress in a group and increases the activity of the group or individual. ! Helps in the recovery of animals with non-nutrition related health disorders. ! Improves the skin condition and appearance (for example, glossy fur or color of feathers). ! Enhances reproduction.: ! Minimizes the incidence of health disorders due to deficiency or excess of a particular nutrient (such as nutritional bone disease, hemosiderosis, perosis, obesity or infertility).; ! Increases natural feeding behaviors, thus avoiding the appearance of diseases affecting the structures adapted to foraging (for instance, beak, claw or tooth overgrowth or oral infections).; ! Decreases or even eliminates abnormal behaviors that could have a direct or indirect nutritional basis (stereotypic behaviors, regurgitation, coprophagy, cannibalism, or self-mutilation).; ! Decreases social stress in a group and increases the activity of the group or individual.; ! Helps in the recovery of animals with non-nutrition related health disorders.; ! Improves the skin condition and appearance (for example, glossy fur or color of feathers).; ! Enhances reproduction.

Reduces the veterinary care and costs by preventing the appearance of nutritional related illness. Additionally, animals with a balanced diet are less likely to contract other diseases.

Feather disorders can be caused by nutritional deficiencies: amino acids (e.g., arginine), B vitamins (e.g., B12), and/or some minerals (zinc, iodine or others) Small clawed otters predisposed to calcium oxalate urolithiasis of nutritional origin

Optimizes the costs destined to the feeding of the animal collection:

! allowing for exchanges among seasonal food items which may be similar in nutrient content but more affordable;
! improving and optimizing storage conditions and diet preparation;
! assuring that the diet formulated is the diet offered, and the diet offered is the diet consumed.

Quite frequently animals receive excessive amounts of food that allow them to choice feed (unbalancing the diet). The excess of food also enhances cross contamination and appearance of plagues, and leads to a considerable and unnecessary budget expense for the institution

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		! Minimizes the incidence of health disorders due to deficiency or excess of a particular nutrient (such as nutritional bone disease, hemosiderosis, perosis, obesity or infertility). ! Increases natural feeding behaviors, thus avoiding the appearance of diseases affecting the structures adapted to foraging (for instance, beak, claw or tooth overgrowth or oral infections). ! Decreases or even eliminates abnormal behaviors that could have a direct or indirect nutritional basis (stereotypic behaviors, regurgitation, coprophagy, cannibalism, or self-mutilation).
	Squirrel Monkey with zinc-responsive pododermatitis