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

HOLDING YARDS AND BIOLOGICAL NEEDS

• For wild animal species like Spotted deer, Sambar deer etc., small holding yards are often used to keep the released cervids (from quarantine places) for some days. This facility in captive wild animal places often helps to keep the wild animals acclimatized with the environment.
• Snakes need mud-pots for laying of eggs. Similarly,arboreal non-human species like Common langurs need hanging types of wooden rods for climbing activities.
• Wallowing tankor water source to move freely is to be provided for Elephant, Rhino, Sambar deer etc.
•  Among the felids, emphasis maybe given to provide water filled tank for submerging or sitting in summer periods for tigers, in particular.