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Aquatic and Terrestrial Invertebrate Welfare

SIMPLE SUMMARY: Invertebrates (animals without backbones) make up over 95% of the earth’s species yet compared with vertebrates (animals with backbones like fishes, amphibians, reptiles, birds, and mammals) our understanding of and efforts relating to the topic of welfare is relatively minimal. We h...

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Autores principales: Lewbart, Gregory A., Zachariah, Trevor T.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: MDPI 2023
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10649180/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37958134
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ani13213375
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description SIMPLE SUMMARY: Invertebrates (animals without backbones) make up over 95% of the earth’s species yet compared with vertebrates (animals with backbones like fishes, amphibians, reptiles, birds, and mammals) our understanding of and efforts relating to the topic of welfare is relatively minimal. We have selected seven of the most economically important and widely recognized invertebrate taxa to focus the topic of animal welfare on. In these pages the reader will learn about coelenterates (jellyfishes, anemones, and corals), mollusks (snails, slugs, squid, and octopi), crustaceans (lobsters, crabs, and shrimp), echinoderms (sea stars, sea urchins, and sea cucumbers), chelicerates (spiders, scorpions, and horseshoe crabs), myriapods (centipedes and millipedes), and insects (butterflies, honeybees, and fruit flies). In addition to discussing the welfare of these species, other topics, including anatomy, physiology, husbandry, natural history, and environmental diseases, are reviewed. ABSTRACT: Invertebrates are a diverse group of animals that make up the majority of the animal kingdom and encompass a wide array of species with varying adaptations and characteristics. Invertebrates are found in nearly all of the world’s habitats, including aquatic, marine, and terrestrial environments. There are many misconceptions about invertebrate sentience, welfare requirements, the need for environmental enrichment, and overall care and husbandry for this amazing group of animals. This review addresses these topics and more for a select group of invertebrates with biomedical, economical, display, and human companionship importance.
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spelling pubmed-106491802023-10-31 Aquatic and Terrestrial Invertebrate Welfare Lewbart, Gregory A. Zachariah, Trevor T. Animals (Basel) Review SIMPLE SUMMARY: Invertebrates (animals without backbones) make up over 95% of the earth’s species yet compared with vertebrates (animals with backbones like fishes, amphibians, reptiles, birds, and mammals) our understanding of and efforts relating to the topic of welfare is relatively minimal. We have selected seven of the most economically important and widely recognized invertebrate taxa to focus the topic of animal welfare on. In these pages the reader will learn about coelenterates (jellyfishes, anemones, and corals), mollusks (snails, slugs, squid, and octopi), crustaceans (lobsters, crabs, and shrimp), echinoderms (sea stars, sea urchins, and sea cucumbers), chelicerates (spiders, scorpions, and horseshoe crabs), myriapods (centipedes and millipedes), and insects (butterflies, honeybees, and fruit flies). In addition to discussing the welfare of these species, other topics, including anatomy, physiology, husbandry, natural history, and environmental diseases, are reviewed. ABSTRACT: Invertebrates are a diverse group of animals that make up the majority of the animal kingdom and encompass a wide array of species with varying adaptations and characteristics. Invertebrates are found in nearly all of the world’s habitats, including aquatic, marine, and terrestrial environments. There are many misconceptions about invertebrate sentience, welfare requirements, the need for environmental enrichment, and overall care and husbandry for this amazing group of animals. This review addresses these topics and more for a select group of invertebrates with biomedical, economical, display, and human companionship importance. MDPI 2023-10-31 /pmc/articles/PMC10649180/ /pubmed/37958134 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ani13213375 Text en © 2023 by the authors. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
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