Health and Welfare of Captive Reptiles / edited by Clifford Warwick, F.L. Frye, J.B. Murphy.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Warwick, Clifford, editor.

Frye, F.L., editor.

Murphy, J. B., editor.

SpringerLink (Online service)

Clarence J. Marshall Memorial Library Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Zoology.

Physiology.

Animal genetics.

Evolution (Biology).

Animal Physiology.

Animal Genetics and Genomics.

Evolutionary Biology.

Local Subjects:

Zoology.

Animal Physiology.

Animal Genetics and Genomics.

Evolutionary Biology.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (XIII, 299 pages)

Edition:

First edition 1995.

Contained In:

Springer Nature eBook

Place of Publication:

Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 1995.

System Details:

text file PDF

Summary:

This most important book fully examines the welfare of captive reptiles and discusses the positive and negative implications of general husbandry and research programmes. The editors, acknowledged experts in their own right, have drawn together an extremely impressive international group of contributors providing clearly written and comprehensive accounts of aspects such as physiology, physical stress, diet, veterinary and environmental issues, normal behaviour, psychological stress and informed design in research.

Contents:

Introduction: Health and welfare of captive reptiles

1 Physiology and functional anatomy

1.1 Introduction

1.2 Body temperature, energetics and ectothermy

1.3 Light and photoreception

1.4 Water exchange and humidity

1.5 Digestive physiology and nutrition

1.6 Respiration and circulation

1.7 Pain and stress

1.8 Conclusion

Acknowledgements

References

2 Biology of stress: interactions with reproduction, immunology and intermediary metabolism

2.1 Introduction

2.2 Reproduction

2.3 Immunity

2.4 Corticosteroids, intermediary metabolism and growth

2.5 Implications for captive husbandry of reptiles and future research

3 Nutritional considerations

3.1 Introduction

3.2 Provision of an adequate water supply

3.3 Selection of food

3.4 Apprehension of prey and gathering of fodder

3.5 Initial processing

3.6 Assimilation

3.7 Elimination

3.8 Miscellaneous factors and their effects on nutrition

3.9 Concluding remarks

References and further reading

4 Veterinary perspectives and techniques in husbandry and research

4.1 Introduction

4.2 Captive reptiles

4.3 Free-living reptiles

4.4 Conclusions

References and recommended reading

5 Naturalistic versus clinical environments in husbandry and research

5.1 Introduction

5.2 Context: Welfare in husbandry and research

5.3 Terminology for wild and captive reptile environments

5.4 Naturalistic versus clinical environments

5.5 Conclusions

5.6 Recommendations

6 Normal behaviour

6.1 Introduction

6.2 Maintenance behaviours

6.3 Distance-reducing behaviour

6.4 Agonistic behaviour

6.5 Conclusions

7 Effects of ontogenetic processes and rearing conditions

7.1 Introduction

7.2 The prenatal period

7.3 Parental care

7.4 Handling and novel environments

7.5 Cage size and structure

7.6 Social arrangements

7.7 Feeding

7.8 Defensive behaviour

7.9 Long-term influence of captive regimes

7.10 Conclusions

8 Behavioural consequences of husbandry manipulations: indicators of arousal, quiescence and environmental awareness

8.1 Introduction

8.2 Cage cleaning and exploratory behaviour

8.3 Use of familiar artificial chemical cues

8.4 Chemical recognition of self

8.5 Sensitivity to spatial considerations

8.6 General discussion

9 Psychological and behavioural principles and problems

9.1 Introduction

9.2 Living wild and noticing captivity

9.3 Recognizing and interpreting signs of psychological and ethological well-being and poor welfare

9.4 Specific psychological and ethological problems

9.5 General considerations

9.6 Conclusions

10 Ethologically informed design in husbandry and research

10.1 Introduction

10.2 Ethologically informed design

10.3 Case studies: ethologically integrated designs

10.4 Recommendations and conclusions

11 Miscellaneous factors affecting health and welfare

11.1 Introduction

11.2 Stress, pain and sensitivity

11.3 Thermal factors, thermoregulation and light

11.4 Growth

11.5 Electromagnetism in the artificial environment

11.6 Reintroductions to nature

11.7 Euthanasia and killing

11.8 Conclusions

References.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Clarence J. Marshall Memorial Library Fund.

Other Format:

Printed edition:

ISBN:

9789401112222

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Restricted for use by site license.