Department of Biology, University of Antwerp Antwerp, Belgium.
Centre for Research and Conservation, Royal Zoological Society of Antwerp Antwerp Belgium.
J Appl Anim Welf Sci. 2021 Jul-Sep;24(3):321-330. doi: 10.1080/10888705.2021.1916937. Epub 2021 Apr 28.
The effect of long term captivity is a factor that is important for all research utilizing wild caught animals. Despite the fact that it can be considered to be one of the most fundamental potential sources of stress in captivity, it has received a low amount of interest in recent research on lizards. Given the wide variety in ecology and life history among lizards species, it would make sense to investigate the effect of long term captivity on wild caught lizards on a broader scale. In this study we investigated the effect of long term captivity (four months) on the physiology and behavior of male and female lizards. Our results showed no negative effects of four months of captivity on physiological and behavioral measurements in male lizards. Similar results for females were found for all measurements except body mass and tail width. Here our results indicated a potential negative effect of four months of captivity on body mass and tail width in females.
长期圈养的影响是所有利用野生捕获动物进行研究的重要因素。尽管它可以被认为是圈养中最基本的潜在压力源之一，但在最近关于蜥蜴的研究中，它并没有受到太多关注。鉴于蜥蜴物种在生态学和生活史方面的多样性，有必要在更广泛的范围内研究长期圈养对野生捕获蜥蜴的影响。在这项研究中，我们调查了长期圈养（四个月）对雄性和雌性蜥蜴的生理和行为的影响。我们的结果表明，四个月的圈养对雄性蜥蜴的生理和行为测量没有负面影响。除了体重和尾巴宽度外，对所有测量值都发现了类似的结果。在这里，我们的结果表明，四个月的圈养对雌性蜥蜴的体重和尾巴宽度可能有负面影响。
