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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Published in:Animals (Basel)
Main Authors: 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
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Language:Inglês
Published: MDPI 2021
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Online Access:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8160691/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34069685
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ani11051459
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