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Getting It Straight: Accommodating Rectilinear Behavior in Captive Snakes—A Review of Recommendations and Their Evidence Base

SIMPLE SUMMARY: Snakes are sentient animals and should be subject to the accepted general welfare principles of other species. However, they are also the only vertebrates commonly housed in conditions that prevent them from adopting rectilinear behavior (ability to fully stretch out). We conducted a...

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Autores principales: Warwick, Clifford, Grant, Rachel, Steedman, Catrina, Howell, Tiffani J., Arena, Phillip C., Lambiris, Angelo J. L., Nash, Ann-Elizabeth, Jessop, Mike, Pilny, Anthony, Amarello, Melissa, Gorzula, Steve, Spain, Marisa, Walton, Adrian, Nicholas, Emma, Mancera, Karen, Whitehead, Martin, Martínez-Silvestre, Albert, Cadenas, Vanessa, Whittaker, Alexandra, Wilson, Alix
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: MDPI 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8160691/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34069685
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ani11051459