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

ARTIFICIAL INSEMINATION

• This technique is used in multiple species of the animals ranging from the honey bee to elephant. This significant reproductive technology is useful in captive breeding of wild animal species like the highly valued and endangered wild animals . example : Tigers , Lions , Elephants , Chimpanzees , etc. Frozen semen banks are highly required with history of the concerned wild animal species used for further advancement of breeding. Electro-ejaculators are being used to collect semen from male genital organs , involving the application of varied and measured electric current over the selected sites of the body. Female genitalia based diseases like pyometra , metritis , etc. may be fully avoided by using this assisted reproductive technology.