VMD 512: Zoo/Wild Animal Breeding, Management, Nutrition and Health Care (1+1)

ANIMAL INDICATORS

• Animals are being used to indicate the health status of themselves, the environment etc. The complexity of factors like nutritional, ethological, environmental, genetic etc. act in general upon a population of wild animals.
• These factors are assessed by secondary indicators like habitat, feeding habits, population characteristics. Assessment of primary indicators that are obtained directly from wild animals representing a population may help in the minimizing of many sources of variations and provide greater precision, in general.
• During the planning of wildlife management, more significance is generally given to the various types of wildlife values.