Wild Life Forensics: Anatomical Applications

The unauthorized exploitation of wildlife for commercial gain in the food, artifact, and cosmetic sectors has raised alarming concerns regarding the erosion of wild faunal diversity and underscores the need for stringent conservation measures. As a result of this veterolegal cases are rising specially with wild life. Veterinarians are often called for identification of species, breed, age, sex of the remains of the wildlife animals during veterolegal cases. They can be identified based on samples available like remnants of bones, hairs, teeth, meat, horns and blood through gross morphology, histology, electron microscopy and molecular techniques. Wildlife Forensics (WF’s) is an emerging field of science, useful in not only identification of species and prosecution of wildlife crimes but also in monitoring the health and impact of environmental factors on the wellbeing of wildlife populations. Wildlife forensics heavily relies on the application of veterinary anatomy knowledge, which is essential to compensate for the limited availability of data on wildlife anatomy, emphasizing the importance of further research and focus in this field.Keywords: Wildlife, Anatomy, Veterolegal, Forensics