As used in this chapter:
(1) "Agricultural crops" means any product of cultivation;
(2) "Board" means the Agricultural and Wildlife Damage Prevention Board;
(3) "Bounty" means the monetary compensation paid to persons for the harvest of predatory or depredating animals;
(4) "Damage" means any injury or loss to livestock, poultry, agricultural crops, or wildlife inflicted by predatory or depredating animals or depredating birds;
(5) "Depredating animal" means a field mouse, gopher, ground squirrel, jack rabbit, raccoon, or prairie dog;
(6) "Depredating bird" means a Brewer's blackbird or starling;
(7) "Livestock" means cattle, horses, mules, sheep, goats, and swine;
(8) "Predatory animal" means any coyote; and
(9) "Wildlife" means any form of animal life generally living in a state of nature, except a predatory animal or a depredating animal or bird.