Food Management of wild cats in Captivity
International Journal of Development Research
Food Management of wild cats in Captivity
Article History: Received 11th October, 2020; Received in revised form 16th November, 2020; Accepted 23rd December, 2020; Published online 30th January, 2021.
Copyright © 2021 Jessica Lucilene Cantarini Buchini and Suelen Túlio de Córdova Gobetti. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
The nutritional requirements of wild animals remain largely unknown, and the use of mathematical models of nutritional requirements of domestic animals is being very useful, as well as information on food constituents, symptoms of excess and deficiency of nutrients and minerals. This work aimed at estimating how the food management of wild cats in Brazil performed. The Research wasmade through a questionnaire, containing 22 questions available on Google Forms, and sent to zoos in Brazil. The data collected is of the quantitative type whose sampling method used was the non-probabilistic. Of the participating establishments, 24 answered the questionnaire. It concluded that it is still necessary to establish nutritional management standards for wild cats kept in captivity in Brazil, in addition to more investment in food sectors and more incentive to research in this area.
