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

SPECIES-SPECIALITIES

Bears and otters

• Bears (These species are more prone for exhibition of stereotypic behavior and abnormal behavioral patterns like packing, weaving, head-swaying, repetitive self-sucking, stereotypic swimming and tongue flicking due to frustration, stress and boredom causing environmental features).
• Otters(these are social animals like elephant and chimpanzee and appears to be more inquisite in nature when kept in the confined state)

Mongoose and otheres

• Mongooses (Among the smaller sized wild mammals, it is the mongoose that appears to suffer from boredom and are the highly intelligent and intensely curious mongooses. Due to boredom, the mongooses often sit in the nest box or pace up and down, oblivious to all around them which is a classic case of motor stereotypism.
• Non-human primates and carnivores which are more likely to investigate novel objects than other wild animal species.

Note

• It is to worthy to mention that the young mammals are always more manipulative and playful than the adults.
• Herbivores appear to have inclination to probe or manipulate materials unlike the carnivores or the omnivores.