Dr. Billy Sveen discusses his new scientific paper, Captive Equivalence As A Minimum Welfare Standard For Captivity-Managed Herpetofauna, highlighting the ethics of keeping herps in captivity in comparison to the wild and all that goes into considering the lives of each counterpart. For anyone wanting to improve their care in captivity, or even those wanting to start thinking about the ethics of their care differently, this episode is a must-watch. Dr. Billy Sveen notes The Five Domains of care in captivity and compares them to how the wild counterparts live, with considerations of survival rates, habitat losses, suffering in animals, and more. Billy also demonstrates ways that we as captive keepers can improve our care in enclosures, diet, enrichment, and other aspects of care to ensure that we are keeping our herps responsibly and ethically.
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Captive Equivalence As A Minimum Welfare Standard For Captivity-Managed Herpetofauna: https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5f99c047fa9ceb071696ee9a/t/67ec2f45295d144305dc58f1/1743531845626/V7.1_001_Opinion_Sveen.pdf
00:00 Introducing Dr. Billy Sveen
2:07 Coming Up: Zoo Med ReptiTemp Dimming Thermostat
2:39 Coming Up: The Bio Dude Substrates + Bug Grub
3:14 Welcome Billy - Reptile Keeping + Projects
8:23 Captive Equivalence As A Minimum Welfare Standard For Captivity-Managed Herpetofauna
26:32 Zoo Med ReptiTemp Dimming Thermostat
28:03 Applying Welfare Standards
36:41 The Bio Dude Substrates + Bug Grub
37:42 Updating Captive Care To Improve Welfare + Defining Suffering
54:11 Survival Rates + Wild Caught Animals
1:03:17 Habitat Loss of Wild Herps + Natural Fallacies
1:14:56 Ethics of Suffering in Animals
1:23:24 What Can I Improve + Meeting Standards
1:30:54 Closing Thoughts
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