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Health and Welfare of Captive Reptiles

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  • © 1995

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Editors:
  1. Clifford Warwick

    1. Institute of Herpetology, College Gates, Worcester, England

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  2. Fredric L. Frye

    1. Fund for Clinical Research, Davis, USA

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  3. James B. Murphy

    1. Department of Herpetology, Dallas Zoo, Dallas, USA

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Table of contents (12 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiii
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  2. Introduction: Health and welfare of captive reptiles

    • Clifford Warwick, Fredric L. Frye, James B. Murphy
    Pages 1-4

  3. Physiology and functional anatomy

    • Harvey B. Lillywhite, Robert E. Gatten Jr.
    Pages 5-31

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

    • Louis J. Guillette Jr., Alison Cree, Andrew A. Rooney
    Pages 32-81

  5. Nutritional considerations

    • Fredric L. Frye
    Pages 82-97

  6. Veterinary perspectives and techniques in husbandry and research

    • John E. Cooper, David L. Williams
    Pages 98-112

  7. Naturalistic versus clinical environments in husbandry and research

    • Clifford Warwick, Catrina Steedman
    Pages 113-130

  8. Normal behaviour

    • James C. Gillingham
    Pages 131-164

  9. Effects of ontogenetic processes and rearing conditions

    • Gordon M. Burghardt, Donna G. Layne
    Pages 165-185

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

    • David Chiszar, W. Thomas Tomlinson, Hobart M. Smith, James B. Murphy, Charles W. Radcliffe
    Pages 186-204

  11. Psychological and behavioural principles and problems

    • Clifford Warwick
    Pages 205-238

  12. Ethologically informed design in husbandry and research

    • Neil Greenberg
    Pages 239-262

  13. Miscellaneous factors affecting health and welfare

    • Phillip C. Arena, Clifford Warwick
    Pages 263-283

  14. Back Matter

    Pages 284-299
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About this book

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.

Reviews

`The narratives are well written and sufficiently user-friendly to be read by almost anyone who raises reptiles. The book will be particularly useful for vertebrate zoologists, veterinarians, reptile breeders, and zoo keepers.'
Choice
`This book is a welcome addition to the steadily increasing library of herpetological literature ... an impressive international group of contributors are to be found within.'
The Veterinary Record
`The editors are acknowledged experts in this field, and a great deal of care has gone into the production of this book, involving 17 contributors in addition to the editors.'
CAB International, Veterinary Bulletin
`This book is an interesting early examination of the animal welfare aspects of working with reptiles in captivity and also in nature.'
The Herpetological Journal
`To review such a packed volume is difficult indeed, in order to give the correct credence to its excellence ... a most important step forward in the cataloguing of existing knowledge on the subject ... essential reading for all workers in the field ...'
UWAF

Editors and Affiliations

  • Institute of Herpetology, College Gates, Worcester, England

    Clifford Warwick

  • Fund for Clinical Research, Davis, USA

    Fredric L. Frye

  • Department of Herpetology, Dallas Zoo, Dallas, USA

    James B. Murphy

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Health and Welfare of Captive Reptiles

  • Editors: Clifford Warwick, Fredric L. Frye, James B. Murphy

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-1222-2

  • Publisher: Springer Dordrecht

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 1995

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-412-55080-5Published: 30 November 1994

  • eBook ISBN: 978-94-011-1222-2Published: 01 December 2013

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XIII, 299

  • Topics: Zoology, Animal Physiology, Animal Genetics and Genomics, Evolutionary Biology

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