Course curriculum

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    1. Course Description, Goals and Curriculum

      FREE PREVIEW

    2. Pre-Course Survey

    1. Taxonomy & Phylogeny

      FREE PREVIEW

    2. Range & Distribution

    3. Biology & Physiology

    4. Conservation & Education

    5. Foundational Information Quiz

    1. Water & Humidity

    2. Heating & Lighting

    3. Enclosure Design

    4. Captive Husbandry Quiz

    5. Live Class: Bioactive substrate, live plants, and enclosure design for animals, staff and guests

    6. Live Class Slides PDF

    1. Wild Diets

    2. Captive Diets

    3. Diets Quiz

    4. Live Class: Body condition, growth rate, and determining feeding frequency and amounts

    5. Live Class Slides PDF

    1. Tegu Behavior

    2. Safety & Handling

    3. Training Tegus

    4. Enrichment for Tegus

    5. Behavior, Training and Enrichment Quiz

    6. Live Class: Feeding and handling, tegus as educational animals, free-roaming

    7. Live Class Slides PDF

    1. Welfare Inputs

    2. Welfare Outputs

    3. Assessing Welfare in Tegus

    4. Welfare Quiz

    5. Live Class Part 1: Common welfare concerns in tegus - Environment & Nutrition

    6. Live Class Part 2: Common welfare concerns in tegus - Physical health and Behavior

    7. Live Class PDF Part 1 & 2

About this course

  • $100.00
  • 21 lessons
  • 690 mins of content
  • Certificate of Completion

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