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

TECHNIQUES USING SPECIFIC SENSE PERCEPTION

Cooling

• The cooling related reflex can be used to control the wild animals like serpentines.

Vision

• Vision related reflex can be used to control the wild animals and such types of restraints are often used to control the vision based stress reactions also in case of wild animals.
• It is to be remembered that the blind folded wild animals may not show much excitement unlike the wild animal which has not been blind folded.
• Complete coverage but with the proper ventilation using thick cloth like tarpaulin may be of useful in quitening the concerned wild animal. This feature is to be taken care of during the calming down of the free ranging wild animal like leopard etc.
• It is to be remembered that the nocturnal wild animals may be less active in broad day light and similarly, the diurnal wild animals may be less active in night time.

Psychological tool

• Voice may be helpful to some extent for the proper restraint of the wild animal.
• However, it may not be taken as a more reliable tool for the restraint of the wild animal.

Smell

• Sometimes, the presence of excreta from same animal or the same species may have some degree of calming effects.