Culling's the process of removing animals from a group based on specific criteria. This's done in order to either reinforce certain desirable characteristics or to remove certain undesirable characteristics from the group. For livestock and wildlife, the process of culling usually implies the killing of animals with undesirable characteristics. Origin of the term The word comes from the latin from Latin colligere, which means collect. The term can be applied broadly to mean sorting a collection… (More on Culling)