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

WATER

• Water is highly a required item in a habitat of the wild animal species. When the water resources are poor in a habitat, then the quality of the concerned habitat is considered as a poor one from the conservation point of view.
• Riparian vegetation along the stream banks may be considered linking places or corridors for the animal movement. Animals in desert regions generally depend on the succulent vegetation or metabolic water of the body.
• Water bodies play a greater role in the disease transmission esp. in cases of contamination by grazing livestock that utilizes the water resources.