Concept in Definition ABC

Fauna is the term used to designate the set of animal species that populate a specific geographic region and that arrived there as a consequence of one of the several geological periods that occurred throughout the planet's history land.

Although in reality and as a consequence that Animals are usually very sensitive to variations or disturbances that their habitat, their distribution spatial will depend on a lot of factors as the temperature, the presence or not of water and the possibility of the existence of competence with other species or the presence of predators.

Zoogeography is the discipline who is in charge of studying and analyze this questions that we marked above and the one that tells us that if there is an important alteration in the fauna of a ecosystem This will be determined because clearly some of the factors we mentioned had to do with that outcome.

There are different types of fauna depending on the geographical origin from which the various species come. The autochthonous or native wildlife is made up of all those animals that naturally belong to the world they inhabit and the exotic wildlife is made up of all wild animals that do not belong to that habitat, however, the voluntary and involuntary action of man has caused it to do

Also, each corner of the planet has its respective domestic fauna that is obviously made up of those animals that have been domesticated. by man to accompany him in his life, as can be the case with typical pets, cats, dogs, canaries, rabbits and many others. slightly less conventional to the taste of the owners or, failing that, those who have a utility in order to produce work, goods or services. In the latter case we can include the horse, the ox, the pig, the goat, the cow, among others.

And finally in a country or region we can find the group of animals whose domestication remains in process. The most characteristic case of this group is that of the animals that have been raised under the regime that is followed in zoos and that, as many may have been able to see in some of their visits to these places, their condition is semi-captive, that is, on the one hand, their habitat is recreated as best as possible so that they do so their own and they are kept isolated from people through cages and on the other, specialized personnel are in charge of training them to reduce their characteristics wild.