ENWC201 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Metabolic Water, Heterothermy, Water Content

• School: University of Delaware
• Department: Entomology and Wildlife Conservation
• Course: ENWC201
• Professor: Kyle Mc Carthy

Document Summary

Wildlife management and conservation: contemporary principles and practices. Initially wildlife was considered game - animals that were hunted. Aldo leopold defined game management as art of making land produce sustained annual crops of wild game for recreational use . The qualification act: one had to be a landowner worth at least 40 shillings or a clergyman earing at least 10 pounds per year to legally take game. In england , two classes of animals were designated based on common law of property: domitae nature (domestic animals) and ferae naturae (wild animals) The us followed a different path, fundamental legal doctrine regarding wildlife implies that states have authority over wildlife , not landowners. Wildlife is not universally defines, changes with the viewpoint of the user. Wildlife considered by the wildlife profession entails free living, wild animals (excluding feral or exotic species) of major significance to humans. Includes plants and lower animals (microorganisms) because wildlife habitats have to be taken into consideration.