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

RESPONSES OF WILD ANIMALS TO DIFFERENT TYPES OF STRESSORS

• The responses of various species of wild animals reared in captive condition or in free ranging conditions may vary depending on many factors like place of capture, type of medical agents used in the concerned wild animal species, type of stress factors, the degree of stress factors etc.
• Symptoms of capture stress need to be thoroughly understood by the attending veterinarian in zoological park or zoo or zoological garden. This may help to attend the concerned wild animal species in a successful manner without causing problem to the life of the targeted wild animal species.
• In short, it canbe said that there is an involvement of sympathetic nervous system-adrenal medullapathway and hypothalamic, adenohypophyseal and adrenocortical pathway, in allthese stress related responses of wild animals.