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

NATURAL APPEARANCE

• The housing arrangements need to merge with the natural surroundings and this avoids the distraction when visitors see the enclosure. Hence, the objectives of visiting of zoos may be achieved.
• For many wild animal species, housing arrangements should include naturally simulating infrastructures and for example, trees may be placed / grown inside the arboreal species like nilgiri langur.
• The visible structural elements of the barriers that are in direct line of the vision of visitors andexhibit species should be painted suitably , so as to render those structuralelements to appear like those of local soil.