zooculturehttp://www.oed.com/dictionary/zooculture_n%3Ftab%3Dmeaning_and_usezooculture, n.
Revised 2017

zooculturenoun

  1. 1873–
    The practice or activity of rearing and breeding domesticated or captive animals; cf. zootechny n.
    1. 1873
      They are not attained by the evasion of any of the difficulties of marine zoo-culture.
      British Medical Journal 31 May 620/1
    2. 1900
      That condition of toleration between animals and men which normally precedes domestication, and forms the first step in zooculture.
      Annual Reports Smithsonian Inst. 65
    3. 1991
      Western colleges of agriculture, or rather zooculture.
      Sewanee Review vol. 99 252
    4. 2015
      The authors would like to thank Y. Hébert, C. Roussel..and C. Mercier for their technical assistance in zooculture.
      Aquaculture vol. 443 38/2

Originally published as part of the entry for zoo-, comb. form

zoo-, comb. form was revised in June 2017.