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

CERVIDS

• More deer are poached or hunted in many parts of the world than any other species. These animals are kept as most popular exhibits and are often kept as mixed exhibits also in zoological garden or zoo or zoological park or in deer parks.
• Various species of deer are also farmed in many countries and the antlers are harvested in a systematic manner, for medicinal purposes. Antler is the anatomical specialty of these animals, in general.