The virus was first reported in cats in January, when a clouded leopard at a zoo near Bangkok died from an infection; a month later, a sick white tiger at the same zoo tested positive for H5N1.
Groups differed significantly with respect to the Stroop task, fluency, Zoo Tests and Key Search of the BADS (one-way ANOVA).
Regarding both Zoo Tests, patients with Alzheimer's disease were more impaired than subjects with subjective cognitive impairment (Zoo 1: T = 7.3, df = 11.1, P = 0.001; Zoo 2: T = 3.3, df = 14, P = 0.02), whereas there was no difference between subjective cognitive impairment and FTLD (Zoo 1: T = 1.2, df = 14.1, P = 0.78; Zoo 2: T = 1.0, df = 16, P = 0.99).
Twenty-three animals from 7 zoos tested consistently positive (18 %), 24 animals of 5 zoos tested intermittently positive/borderline/undetectable (19%%) and 78 animals tested consistently undetectable (63%%).
For the Zoo 1 test, there was a significant difference between Alzheimer's disease and FTLD (T = −3.6, df = 8.8, P = 0.02), and for the Zoo 2 test, there was a trend regarding this group difference (T = −2.4, df = 20.7, P = 0.08).
The first part of the Zoo Map test requires participants to mentally plan a route through a zoo drawn on a map while taking into account given rules such as not to take a certain trail twice.
In contrast to the aforementioned tests that were mainly related to the left lateral prefrontal lobe, both Zoo Map Tests showed a different pattern, mainly involving the parietal cortex bilaterally.
Perhaps most damaging of all though is that the constant repetition of the idea that we can save species in zoos or test tubes is believed by the media and therefore increasingly by the public.
Thirty-three prinates in outdoor exhibits at the zoo were tested for WNV.
The zoo-map test of the Behavioural Assessment of the Dysexecutive Syndrome as a measure of executive functions.
