Technology, Industry, and Agriculture

Animal Culling

Selection and removal of individuals from a population or group. Culling is a common strategy with livestock and wildlife, used to control and eradicate diseases or pests, control population size, select for desired genetic characteristics, and maximize economic profit.

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Selection and removal of individuals from a population or group. Culling is a common strategy with livestock and wildlife, used to control and eradicate diseases or pests, control population size, select for desired genetic characteristics, and maximize economic profit.

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1 entry terms
  • Culling, Animal

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12 allowable subheadings

Indexed with the subheadings classification, economics, education, ethics, history, instrumentation, legislation & jurisprudence, methods, organization & administration, standards, statistics & numerical data, trends.

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2015

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  1. J01.040w.090w.500w
  2. N06.850w.780.200.112w

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References

  1. National Library of Medicine. Animal Culling. Medical Subject Headings (MeSH). 2026. Unique ID D065136. http://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/2026/D065136
  2. Animal Culling. In: Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Culling
  3. Animal Culling. In: Wikidata. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1740042