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

ZOOLOGICAL MEDICINE

• In general, medicine is defined as any means to cure disease or improve health and health is broadly defined as the general condition of body and mind. Zoological Medicine is a wide spectrum of disciplines associated with the medical problems of all species of wild animals in a captive wild animal place.
• Types of Medicine in wildlife fields
• Zoo medicine - It is associated with captive wild animals.
• Wildlife medicine - It is the one that is associated with free living wild animals.
• Population medicine - It is the one that is associated with large number of wild animals.