CEMAS

Coordinated by professor Moacir franco de oliveira for more than 20 years, the Center for Multiplication of Wild Animals (CEMAS), as a breeder for scientific purposes and registered with IBAMA, has as its main purpose the dissemination of research in different areas of knowledge. In function of this, it is able to attend different undergraduate and graduate courses, especially those linked to the agricultural sciences area.

It is organized in a sector for raising wild bees, stingless bees; a sector of creation of prices; an agouti breeding sector; a sector for creating collars and a sector for creating emus. These sectors are divided into boxes or paddocks with dimensions suitable for the maintenance of different species and have a covered screened structure, when it is the case with asbestos tiles and sand floors in order to guarantee the animal the simulation of a natural environment. Many of them guarantee animals a semi-extensive type of captivity regime.

The maintenance environments for CEMAS ‘animals are large, covered with ceramic tile and seek to simulate environments that provide comfort and animal welfare.

Of the taxons maintained at CEMAS, research is carried out involving the vast majority of areas of morphophysiology, reproduction, anesthesiology and animal production, although less frequently.

Among the various areas of scientific production at the University, CEMAS represents one of the units with the highest scientific production and with an enormous prominence in international productions, many of them awarded.

Images of animals kept at CEMAS, where captive therapy work can be observed in agoutis and yet another in a resting situation in an environment that demonstrates pleasantness to the animal. Collared female with her offspring in maternity to guarantee the comfort and safety of the puppies. Finally, a male in an emu nest built by induction during reproductive management in order to ensure more comfort to the animal with a nest in a less sunny environment.