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

ASSESSMENT ON INDICATOR STATUS OF THE GROUP

• If many wild animals of a wild animal species are kept confined in a fenced area of the zoo complex, randomly blood sample should be obtained after the chemical immobilization in a periodical manner and the hematological and biochemical examination, together with the serological examination should be carried out with such sample as a preventive measure of diseases in captive wild animals of the zoological park.
• The qualitative and quantitative data to be obtained with these samples will be of more useful ones towards the up-keeping of health status in wild fauna.