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

PUG MARK AND CENSUS

• Census of wild animal species is taken by a variety of direct methods like sample-animal census, aerial count, beats, road side count of wild animals, breeding bird census, water hole-count method, salt lick-count method etc.
• Similarly, many indirect methods are also adapted for taking the census of the concerned wild animal species, like kill-evidence count, fecal-deposit count, parasite-count method, counting of tracks, pellet-group count, count on burrows or dens of wild animal species, nest count etc. Hence, you have to understand that pug mark identification and documentation are highly required esp. in case of tiger related census, as followed through out this country.