Animal Care

Dr. Doug Levey
dlevey@zoology.ufl.edu

Phone/Fax:
P: (352) 392-9169  
F: (352) 392-3704

To use vertebrate animals in the laboratory or in the field requires approval from the university's Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee (IACUC). Approval is based on review of an animal use protocol and typically requires 3-4 weeks. All animal users must also submit a Risk Assessment to the office of Environmental Health and Safety (EH&S) and must take an online training course ("Working with the UF IACUC).

It would be a major violation of federal regulations to keep any vertebrate animal anywhere on campus for any length of time without IACUC approval.

Zoology Animal Care Form
•This form will download to Adobe Acrobat Reader. Acrobat Reader can be obtained for free from Adobe's web site. THIS FORM CAN BE FILLED OUT IN ACROBAT READER. 'Click' on the blanks to fill in the blanks - then print it out or send it electronically. This form does not go to IACUC. Its purpose is for assignment of animal room space in Batram and Carr Halls. Please submit it to Zoology's IACUC representative (currently, Doug Levey).

Animal Care Checklist (.pdf version)