本课程是一门新兴的生物类学科，是动物学、生态学、畜牧学、行为学、兽医学、公共卫生学等多门课程的交叉学科，从家养动物与野生动物的角度全方位探讨动物保护的问题。本课程的主要内容有：动物保护的内容和意义，动物福利与动物生产中的畜禽保护，动物的保健，人类娱乐活动与动物保护，家庭动物的保护，动物试验与实验动物保护，动物保护立法，野生动物和园养动物的保护。通过本课程的学习和讨论，使学生掌握动物保护科学的基本理论和基本策略，了解动物保护的法规和相关网站，深刻认识生物多样性保护的重要性，今后在家养动物和野生动物的保护方面发挥更大的作用。

The course is a newly developing biological course which deal with many subjects such as zoology, ecology, husbandry, behavior, animal iatrology, commonality hygiene, and so on. The main content of the course includes the content and meaning of animal protection, animal welfare, animal health care, the relation between human entertainment and animal protection, protection of pets, experiment animal, wild animal and animal in zoo, lawmaking of animal protection, and so on. After studying, the students will be familiar with the basic concepts and theory for the science of animal protection and understand the rule of law and the net stages of animal protection so that they can exert more important effect in the protection of domestic animal and wild animal.