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Small cats (subfamily Felinae) in Zoos in the Czech and Slovak Republic.
JAMBOROVÁ, Marcela
Felidae are an attractive group of carnivores for research and the general public. In the wild, they are threatened by habitat loss, persecution and hunting, and in some species by a reduction in genetic variability. Zoos play an important role in halting the process of extinction, specialised breeding programmes play a crucial role in saving endangered cat species. The thesis provides an up-to-date overview of the taxa of small cats kept in zoos in the Czech and Slovak Republic. By analysing breeding data from UCSZOO yearbooks from 2015-2022, the most reproductively successful species were the caracal (Caracal caracal), the Bengal cat (Prionailurus bengalensis euptilurus) and the margay (Leopardus wiedi). The most successful zoo in breeding small cats were Zoo Dv. Králové, Zoo Ohrada and Zoo Jihlava. The cooperation of member zoos with European zoos creates a functional unit in the breeding of felids themselves, ensuring geonetic variability, thus contributing to the continuous strengthening of captive populations of small cats.
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Breeding of selected species from \kur{Felidae} family in ZOOs in the Czech Republic
HRDLIČKOVÁ, Lucie
The aim of this thesis was to process the data and information with predictive capabilities of breeding lion (Panthera leo) and tiger (Panthera tigris) in the Czech zoos including their subspecies. The results was based on the yearbooks of the Union of Czech and Slovak Zoos (UCSZOO), and I try complemented it with adequate information from bulletins of an expert commission UCSZOO for subfamilies Pantherinae and Acinonynchinae: Baghira 1/2004 - 11/2014. I assessed the development of the last 24 years (1990 - 2014). If possible I complete it with a brief summary of the relevant facts from the history of the breeding.
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Current relationship of public to repatriated population of European lynx (Lynx lynx) in the Bohemian Forest.
ROCHOVÁ, Markéta
In the territory of the Czech Republic, Eurasian lynx was exterminated in the beginning of the 19th century. Thanks to the reintroduction programs it has been living here again since 1980s. The maximum of its population was at its peak in 1996; however, since then it has been falling, especially due to illegal hunting. There are about 70 lynxes in Šumava, which is our greatest group. Questionnaires were made for schools in order to evaluate different attitudes to protection of nature in different types of schools, questionnaires for public and gamekeepers were aimed at attitudes to lynxes. The aim of the research was to give recommendation to improve objective and correct foreknowledge of the inhabitants about lynxes in the surroundings aimed at youths and preschool-age children. 432 children and students, 26 gamekeepers and 130 inhabitants of Sušice and its surrounding were approached. Very good knowledge about lynxes was found out in the group of pupils and students; on the other side, gamekeepers have mostly negative relationship with these animals. The relationship between public and lynxes is mostly positive.
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