Viciano Joan, López-Lázaro Sandra, Tanga Carmen
Department of Medicine and Ageing Sciences, 'G. d'Annunzio' University of Chieti-Pescara, 66100 Chieti, Italy.
Departamento de Antropología, Facultad de Ciencias Sociales, Universidad de Chile, Santiago 6850331, Chile.
Animals (Basel). 2022 Aug 10;12(16):2038. doi: 10.3390/ani12162038.
Veterinary forensics is becoming more important in our society as a result of the growing demand for investigations related to crimes against animals or investigations of criminal deaths caused by animals. A veterinarian may participate as an expert witness or may be required to give forensic assistance, by providing knowledge of the specialty to establish a complete picture of the involvement of an animal and allowing the Courts to reach a verdict. By applying diverse dental profiling techniques, not only can species, sex, age-at-death, and body size of an animal be estimated, but also data about their geographical origin (provenance) and the post-mortem interval. This review concentrates on the dental techniques that use the characteristics of teeth as a means of identification of freshly deceased and skeletonised animals. Furthermore, this highlights the information that can be extracted about the animal from the post-mortem dental profile.
由于对涉及虐待动物犯罪调查或动物导致的刑事死亡调查的需求不断增加，兽医法医学在我们的社会中变得越来越重要。兽医可以作为专家证人参与，或者可能被要求提供法医协助，通过提供专业知识来全面了解动物的参与情况，以便法院做出裁决。通过应用各种牙齿特征分析技术，不仅可以估计动物的物种、性别、死亡年龄和体型，还可以获取有关其地理来源（出处）和死后间隔时间的数据。本综述集中于利用牙齿特征作为识别刚死亡和已白骨化动物的手段的牙齿技术。此外，这突出了可以从死后牙齿特征中提取的有关动物的信息。
