Zootechnics[1] [2] is the scientific art of managing domestic or captive animals, including handling, breeding, and keeping.[3]
Based on: genetics, reproduction (animal husbandry), feeding and nutrition, handling, health (preventive medicine) and economics.
Zootechnical studies or zootechnics engineering is a degree more popular in South America and Iberian Europe rather than in other parts of the world.[4]