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

WOLF AND BINTURONG

Wolf (Canis lupus)

• These canids have large skull and teeth.
• Color is variable and have sandy fawn coats stippled with black.
• Dense hair materials are present as winter coat.
• Live in forests as well as in deserts where they shelter from the heat in burrows dug in sand dunes.
• Hunt by day or by night and prey mainly on cattle and occasionally carry off children !

Binturong (Arctictic bintourong)

• This is also called as ‘bear cat’.
• It lives in dense forests and is mainly arboreal in nature.
• Its tufted ears, its long shaggy coat are suggestive of bear.
• Tail is bushy in nature and is markedly thick at the base.
• Rests by curling up in a hole of the tree.
• Omnivorous in nature like any other civets.
• Nocturnal in nature.