ABSTRACT

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 Anolis carolinensis lizards. Our results showed no negative effects of four months of captivity on physiological and behavioral measurements in male A carolinensis 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.

摘要

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环境中最基本的潜在压力来源之一，但在最近的蜥蜴研究中，人们对它的兴趣不大。鉴于蜥蜴物种的生态和生活史多种多样，因此有必要在更广泛的范围内调查长期圈养对野生蜥蜴的影响。在这项研究中，我们调查了长期圈养（四个月）对雄性和雌性Anolis carolinensis蜥蜴生理和行为的影响。我们的结果表明，四个月的圈养对雄性卡罗莱纳州的生理和行为测量没有负面影响蜥蜴。除了体重和尾巴宽度外，所有测量都发现了女性的类似结果。在这里，我们的结果表明，圈养四个月对雌性的体重和尾巴宽度有潜在的负面影响。