The Necessity for Management of Wildlife Population－The Future Course of Veterinary Medicine for Wildlife－

Abstract

There is a new branch of veterinary medicine specializing in wildlife, which can be called wildlife veterinary medicine or veterinary wildlife biology, and which is a field of wildlife biology in the broader area of naure conservation or management. The main objective of this new field will be population management of wildlife, based on population dynamics. The basic processes of population dynamics are birth and death;the most experienced fields of veterinary medicine are reproductive biology and the analysis of deaths of livestock and zoo animals. Wildlife veterinary medicine is expected to make a significant contribution to population management of wildlife.