Animal Biometrics: Concepts and Recent Application

Abstract

This chapter presents a brief introduction of the animal biometrics followed by the major characteristics, advantages, potential applications, and inter-disciplinary relevance of animal biometrics recognition system in the field of ecology. Further, the chapter includes the general framework of animal biometrics recognition systems along with major components for detection and identification of species or individual animal along with some state-of-the-art animal biometrics recognition systems. Furthermore, the chapter introduces the population distribution of different species, technological challenges and recommendations for animal biometrics. Finally the community, communication, data and tool sharing are also included to provide the better collaboration to encourage the multidisciplinary researches in the field of animal biometrics.