Download or read book Health and Welfare of Captive Reptiles written by Clifford Warwick and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2001-11-30 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.