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National Reptile Awareness Day October 21 Activities and How to Celebrate Reptile Awareness Day
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National Reptile Awareness Day (October 21) - Activities and How to Celebrate Reptile Awareness Day • Reptiles can all too often be the forgotten animals when it comes to welfare in captivity, with the majority of studies still focusing on mammals and birds. • A recurring problem in zoo enclosure design is the tendency to rely on traditional approaches to what we think that the animals need and want in an enclosure. Nowhere is this issue more apparent than in the design of reptile enclosures in reptile houses around the world; invariably a series of small, brightly-lit, heated, ‘jewel-case’ glass fronted boxes, frequently devoid of any refuge with the inmate being forced to be starkly obvious in a plastic or painted representation of its natural habitat. • That some reptiles will feed, maintain good physiological health and quite often breed, under these conditions is regarded by their keepers as being indicators of successful husbandry. However, neither of these are indicators of good welfare. These animals can certainly exist under these conditions; but I ask myself, do they thrive? • #NationalReptileAwarenessDay • #reptileawareness • #reptile
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