——— CURATED PRACTICE FOR ZOOS AND AQUARIA
Find the practice you need. See who did it.
Real cases from keepers, curators, vets, and breeders — each one written up with the person who did the work, dated, and published under their name.
Your work is already
somebody's answer.
What Is Chureeda?
—— INTRODUCTION
An index of what was tried in zoos and aquaria, and what happened — told by the person who did the work, checked with them, and published under their name. Including what did not work.
Not a guideline library. Not a forum. A record of practice you can search, date, credit — and answer back to.
How A Case Gets Here.
—— PIPELINE PROCESS
01
CONTRIBUTOR
Tried
A keeper, vet or nutritionist changes something. The result usually stays in one building.
02
CHUREEDA
Extracted
We write it up with them in five parts, filed by what was changed.
03
CONTRIBUTOR
Signed off
Nothing goes live until they approve it — under their own name.
04
THE FIELD
Published
Searchable by species, change and result. Dated and credited.
Every Case Reads the Same Way
—— FORMATTING
EXAMPLE
—— THE EXTRACT
PUBLIC
CONTEXT
One wary, territorial pair of Victoria crowned pigeons at Gyeongju Bird Park.
PROBLEM
Six years of eggs laid from the perch and broken. No nest ever built.
APPROACH
The aviary was planted, sightlines screened, and several nest points offered instead of one.
RESULT
A floor nest and a fertile egg, hatched in an incubator and reared to sub-adult.
STILL OPEN
Nesting has worked once; natural incubation has not.
Shortened from the case
HOW TO READ A CASE
5 parts, always in this order
Context, Problem, Approach, Result, Still open. The full account below follows the same sequence.
Filed by what was changed
A topic tag names what actually changed. An outcome tag names what the change was meant to achieve.
THE EXTRACT'S CASE ➔
Enclosure & environment
Outcome: Breeding
A result, stated plainly
SUCCESS
PARTIAL SUCCESS
NEGATIVE RESULT
INCONCLUSIVE
ONGOING
An evidence tier
Instrumented — dated measurements or clinical documents
Observed — the contributor's own notes
Reported — recalled, undocoumented.
The tier describes the record, not the person. How the case was gathered is listed separately, and a second person confirms the account, it gets a Corroborated flag.
Two gates
MEMBERS
PUBLIC
The extract, the contributor's position and institution, the photograph, the species and facility details, provenance, disclosure and citation are open to everyone. The full account and figures, what was tried and did not work, contact with the contributor are exclusive to members.
Direct Line to the Contributor
—— FEATURE
Ask the person
who did the work.
Guidelines tell you what should happen. They can't tell you what went wrong in week three, for instance.
Every case names its contributor, and members can message those who opt in — so a question about a ration step reaches the nutritionist who set it.
THE CONTRIBUTOR
PUBLIC
PHOTO
[CONTRIBUTOR NAME]
[POSITION]
[INSTITUTION] • [COUNTRY]
Enclosure & envrionment
2 cases
Open to connect
MEMBERS
Ask about this case
Messages go through Chureeda. The contributor's email is never published.
Contributors decide whether to be reachable, case by case.
Messages go through Chureeda — no public email addresses.
Browse contributors, not just cases.
Why Contribute?
—— PURPOSE
Your work, under your name.
Your case is your way in. It publishes with your name, position, and workplace, reviewed with you before it goes live. Once it's published, you're a member and the full index is open to you.
About two minutes, on a phone.
WHAT TO EXPECT
What we ask for
Context, Problem, Approach, Result, Still open. Who you are, what you changed, and what happened. One line is enough to start.
What happens next
We write the extract and full account with you, around your own photographs. You approve it, it publishes, and your membership starts.
You stay in control
Choose whether to be named publicly, and whether members may contact you.
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