Are we keeping our snakes improperly, a study on snake housing.
I don't remember seeing this posted here before, but it seems particularly relevant to keepers of large pythons. Here is a published study looking at the captive housing of snakes and it doesn't look so good for us. The study suggest that we as reptile keepers should have much larger enclosures for our snakes than nearly anyone provides. For the vast majority of people the recommendations would be nearly, if not totally, impossible for the larger species such as burmese, amesthystine and reticulated pythons. I doubt most of us would say larger enclosures are bad but is the significance as great as a cursury read of the study implies? Thoughts on the matter?
Link to the study.
https://www.sciencedirect.com/scienc...58787818302211
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