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

CARNIVORES

• Carnivores are the meat eating animals and require a highly digestible and high quality food resources with nearly all the types of nutrients.
• The various species of this group require most of the times unique type of nutrition . For example, felids need a dietary requirement for amino acid ‘taurine’ and preformed vitamin A and essential fatty acid ‘arachidonic acid’.