zoocide

See also: zoöcide

English

Alternative forms

• zoöcide

Etymology

zoo- +‎ -cide

Noun

zoocide (plural zoocides)

1. The systematic or targeted killing of animals.
   • 2000, Dialogue and Universalism:

     Much later, however, during the Permian period, there was a second act of zoocide, one which is less known and less popular among filmmakers ...

   • 2013, Kelsi Nagy, Phillip David Johnson II, Trash Animals: How We Live with Nature’s Filthy, Feral, Invasive, and Unwanted Species, U of Minnesota Press, →ISBN:

     When the bounty system alone failed to kill all the wolves, the federal government underwrote a kind of zoocide using bounties, trapping, hunting, ...

   • 2016, Matthieu Ricard, A Plea for the Animals: The Moral, Philosophical, and Evolutionary Imperative to Treat All Beings with Compassion, Shambhala Publications, →ISBN, page 147:

     Our proposal is that we speak of zoocide in cases where animals are systematically put to death in large numbers. Zoocide cannot be placed on the same level ...

2. Any substance intended to kill animals.

See also

• animalicide