Method and installation for identifying animals

Installation for identification of animals and for managing information relative to said animals, comprising:

• a reading system;
• an identification readable by the reading system;
• a centralized database for collecting information concerning said animals bearing the identification,
• the centralized database, the identification, and the reading system being operatively connected;
• and
• at least two autonomous communication systems for users, each of said autonomous communication systems integrating,
• the reading system for reading, for at least one animal, the identification born by the one animal,
• a memory for storing information peculiar to the one animal,
• a selecting means that allows a user selective identification of the one animal as a selected one animal,
• a communication means to communicate to the centralized database the information stored in the memory peculiar to the selected one animal, to receive from the centralized database other information peculiar to the selected one animal and to store received other information from the centralized database in the memory, and
• a direct communication means to directly communicate to another communication system of said at least two autonomous communication systems the information peculiar to the selected one animal, to receive from the another communication system yet other information peculiar to the selected one animal, and to store received yet other information from the another communication system in the memory, the yet other information received by a direct communications means selected by a user of the another communication system,
• the direct communication between the communication system and the another communication system being without passing through the centralized database.