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

CAPTIVE BREEDING

• Imbalance in eco-system occurs due to the following reasons:
  •  Poaching and hunting.
  •  Death due to diseases.
  •  Death due to poisoning.
  •  Death due to natural hazards like earth quakes.
  •  Habitat destruction due to multiple reasons (natural and man-made)
• Hence, the wild animal species may become extinct in the course of time and it is a fact that many species of wild animals are in the stage of extinction if the management does not have a scientific type of management features. Hence, captive breeding becomes one of the important objectives in case of zoos.
• It is often becoming a mandatory one for the captive wild animal places like zoos to have both male and female wild animals of the particular wild animal species under threat.
• Such a type of management under ex-situ conditions helps for the prevention of number of wild animals of particular species in an area.
• Conservation efforts are directed mostly in that direction to protect the wild animals that belong to various species. Hence, zoos, zoological parks and zoological gardens become the better places for the captive breeding of the selected species of wild animals for which the available infrastructures are being utilized.