Health and welfare of captive reptiles /

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 contribu...

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Other Authors: Warwick, Clifford, Frye, Fredric L., Murphy, James B. (James Bernard), 1939-
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: London ; New York : Chapman & Hall, 1995.
Edition:First edition.
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Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : health and welfare of captive reptiles / Clifford Warwick, Fredric L. Frye, and James B. Murphy
  • Physiology and functional anatomy / Harvey B. Lillywhite and Robert E. Gatten, Jr.
  • Biology of stress : interactions with reproduction, immunology and intermediary metabolism / Louis J. Guillette, Jr., Alison Cree, and Andrew A. Rooney
  • Nutritional considerations / Fredric L. Frye
  • Veterinary perspectives and techniques in husbandry and research / John E. Cooper and David L. Williams.
  • (cont.) Naturalistic versus clinical environments in husbandry and research / Clifford Warwick and Catrina Steedman
  • Normal behaviour / James C. Gillingham
  • Effects of ontogenetic processes and rearing conditions / Gordon M. Burghardt and Donna Layne
  • Behavioural consequences of husbandry manipulations : indicators of arousal, quiescence, and environmental awareness / David Chiszar ... [et al.]
  • Psychological and behavioural principles and problems / Clifford Warwick
  • Ethologically informed design in husbandry and research / Neil Greenberg
  • Miscellaneous factors affecting health and welfare / Phillip C. Arena and Clifford Warwick.