Animal - Basic Info

What information displays in the Basic Info grid and how to edit it (if you can!). 

 

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Permissions

The role permission to display the ‘basic info’ box is managed in the Husbandry Roles in ZIMS – the option is: Animal/Basic Detail . This is required to be set as “Search/View” at a minimum to allow a user to see animal data in ZIMS.

This also grants the user access to see the taxonomy, collection and sex type of the animal (displayed in the combined grid: Taxonomy / Sex Type / Collection.  To have the ability to edit one of these data types, the role will need to be set to “Edit” for “Animal/Basic Detail” -- this will grant ‘Edit’ rights to all of them together.
 

Basic Info details

1.      The current entity of the animal. In most cases this will be the same for the life of the animal, but it can change in the following scenarios:

       A Fetus is born (Fetus > Individual)

       An Egg is hatched (Egg > Individual)

       If an Individual is split from or merged into a Group, the entity for the record does not actually change

2.      The GAN as created in the initial accession or from a split from a Group

3.      The current Status

4.      The current Sex

5.      Local IDs for all holding/owning institutions will display

6.      Whatever is selected as the Preferred ID. Your Preferred ID can be changed from the Identifiers grid.

7.      The most recent House Name marked as Active. If there is no House Name assigned this field will not display. House Name can be changed from the Identifiers grid.

8.      Scientific and Common Name as recorded by the originator of the record. If marked as Obsolete by Species360 that information will display. If there is a discrepancy between current holder/owner and originator of the record, a conflict will display. Scientific and Common Name can be edited from the Taxonomy/Sex Type/Collection grid if you are the originator of that information.

9.      IUCN and CITES statuses as well as any regional or international studbooks covering the species. This information is sourced from Species360 information. If a studbook is indicated, it does not mean that the animal is recorded in the studbook, it means that there is a studbook in that region for the species.

10.Sourced from the original accession information. This can be edited in the Events Location grid if you created the original record.

11.Sourced from the original accession information. This can be edited in the Events Location grid if you created the original record.

12.Age as sourced from the original record. This can be edited in the Events Location grid if you created the original record.

13.The current Collection the animal is recorded in. This can be updated/edited in the Taxonomy/Sex Type/Collection grid.

14.A hyperlink into the record of the current Enclosure(s)

15.Most recent Health Status. Using the hyperlink you can update/edit the Health Status from here. If updated in the Medical module the information will automatically update here.

16.Most recent Body Condition Score. Using the hyperlink you can update/edit the Body Condition Score from here. If updated in the Medical module the information will automatically update here.

 

Note that if you edit something but do not see it updated here, you may need to refresh this info - click the green double-arrow in the upper left to refresh.  You can export the basic info to Excel and PDF using the icons in the upper left.

 

Revised 5 March 2025