Data serving living systems
Founded in 2016, Akongo is the leading provider of digital animal welfare monitoring for zoos, in France and across Europe. Easily assess, monitor and document the welfare and daily life of your animals with Animal Welfare Monitor.
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With Animal Welfare Monitor, your teams collect data next to the animals, organise day-to-day work and analyse results on the web.
Built for the field, even without a signal
Your teams collect data anywhere in the park — buildings, aviaries, pools, dead zones. Everything syncs automatically as soon as the connection is back.
Scientific protocols
Assess welfare using scientific, adapted and precise protocols for measurable results
Coordinated teams
Strengthen team communication with a digital sector logbook and task management with automation to plan future or repetitive work
Choose your role to go directly to the Animal Welfare Monitor modules designed for your day-to-day work.
Assess the welfare of all your species in 5 minutes. A short survey, on mobile, to get an overall picture, spot the species to watch and prioritise your actions. Free, no commitment.
A true barometer of animal welfare, the tool was co-created at the initiative of the Parc animalier et botanique de Branféré. The protocol was designed in the field with the zoological teams, then tested and refined alongside the keepers.
Already adopted by around twenty parks across Europe — Zoo de la Flèche, Le Pal, Réserve de la Haute Touche, Montpellier, Citadelle de Besançon, Zoo Landau (DE), Budapest Zoo (HU)…
With this barometer, for the first time we can review our 195 species quickly while staying scientifically grounded.
Your teams collect data in the field with the Animal Welfare Monitor app, on phone or tablet, even without a network. They then find it on the web, to analyse it and organise the work.
Know where to start. Your teams answer a few short questions on housing, feeding, health and behaviour for each group of animals. You get an initial overview across all your species, which you can then rank by priority before drawing up an action plan.
Give each team a clear view of its day. Daily report, tasks, pinned information, ongoing treatments: each sector finds its information in one place. Recurring tasks are scheduled once and then come back automatically.
Document the animals' living conditions. Your teams record temperature, humidity, CO₂, UV, pH or ammonia in enclosures and pools; the platform tracks how they change and flags any threshold exceeded, based on limits you set by zone and by parameter.
Follow each individual's health over time. Keepers record weight, appetite, faeces and body condition in the field, with a photo if needed; the platform turns them into individual curves. Prescriptions entered by the vet create the treatments to administer, which teams then see in the app.
Know your animals' activities and the range of behaviours they express. Your teams observe an individual, live or on video, using the species' ethogram; you find the automatically calculated time budget on the platform. Ethograms are illustrated with photos and videos and available in several languages.
See how your animals actually use their enclosure. Your teams place each animal on the map, zone by zone, with the behaviour observed (scan sampling): one individual, a group, or several species at once. The platform turns these records into 2D and 3D heat maps.
Document the enrichment in place and assess its impact. Your teams build an illustrated catalogue, track the day-to-day set-up of enrichment enclosure by enclosure and assess its effects. The module follows the S.P.I.D.E.R. framework (Mellen & MacPhee, 2001).
Never enter the same information twice. You import the animals already recorded in ZIMS, then send back to ZIMS the data collected day to day, such as weights and notes.
Discover this moduleActivate the modules you need and run your welfare programme at your own pace. The expertise of our ethologists and veterinarians stays available — as an option, whenever you decide.
Full access to the platform, unlimited users, technical support. You collect and analyse your data yourself.
Add Akongo's expertise whenever you need it: scientific advice, on-site visits, video monitoring, training. Billed separately.
Modular programmes tailored to your needs. Choose the level that matches your goals.
Institutions of all sizes trust us to monitor and document the welfare of their animals.
Founded in 2016, AKONGO is a private European research organisation that supports zoos and research laboratories in their conservation and animal welfare mission.
A multidisciplinary team serving science, animal welfare and innovation
On-site since2016
To design rigorous scientific protocols and interpret the behaviours specific to each species.
Because health and welfare are inseparable, from daily monitoring to decision-making.
To build a simple, reliable app that's pleasant to use every day in the field.
For an innovative, scalable tool co-built with the teams of zoos and laboratories.
We are proud to be both an accredited Research Organisation (approved by the French Ministry) and a Qualiopi-certified training organisation. We are also a corporate member of EAZA (European Association of Zoos and Aquaria).
Research Tax Credit
French Republic certified process
European Association of Zoos and Aquaria
Committed to biodiversity, animal ethics and sustainable research, and based in France, Akongo puts scientific quality and customer support at the heart of its approach. Our integration into the French Tech ecosystem reflects our innovative approach to developing digital solutions for animal welfare.
