Why have a pet amphibian? insights from youtube

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dc.contributor.authorMeasey, Johnen_ZA
dc.contributor.authorBasson, Annieen_ZA
dc.contributor.authorRebelo, Alexander D.en_ZA
dc.contributor.authorNunes, Ana L.en_ZA
dc.contributor.authorVimercati, Giovannien_ZA
dc.contributor.authorLouw, Marikeen_ZA
dc.contributor.authorMohanty, Nitya Prakashen_ZA
dc.date.accessioned2019-06-04T09:24:34Z
dc.date.accessioned2021-08-26T19:14:06Z
dc.date.available2019-06-04T09:24:34Z
dc.date.available2021-08-26T19:14:06Z
dc.date.issued2019-03-04
dc.descriptionCITATION: Measey, J. et al. 2019. Why have a pet amphibian? Insights from YouTube. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 7:52, doi:10.3389/fevo.2019.00052.
dc.descriptionThe original publication is available at https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/ecology-and-evolution
dc.description.abstractThe desire to own a pet amphibian is growing, and with it a growth in amphibian trade and in negative impacts on native populations, including disease transmission and invasive amphibian populations. We know very little about how or why people choose amphibians as pets, but amphibian owners share large numbers of videos on freely accessible platforms, such as YouTube. We aimed to use videos of captive amphibians to determine which species are kept, their life-history stage and the types of videos uploaded. We watched and categorized 1,162 videos by video type, type of amphibian behavior and amphibian taxonomy (superfamily, family, and species). We used data on the amphibian trade from the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES), on conservation status from the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) red list, and on potential environmental impact from published Environmental Impact Classification of Alien Taxa (EICAT) records, to determine potential conflicts of owning pet amphibians. We recorded 173 captive species in 847 videos with a taxonomic overrepresentation of salamandroids and pipoids, and an underrepresentation of ranoids and plethodontoids. When compared to videos of wild amphibian species, videos of captive animals featured disproportionate amounts of adults feeding, being handled and moving. The videos watched had a smaller proportion of threatened amphibian species, but a higher proportion of invasive species, than would be expected by chance, with the proportion present in CITES appendices (18%) being non-significant. We suggest that such data can be used to profile potential pets for trade and attempt to avoid conflicts with threatened and highly impacting alien species.en_ZA
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dc.format.extent8 pages : illustrationsen_ZA
dc.identifier.citationMeasey, J. et al. 2019. Why have a pet amphibian? Insights from YouTube. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 7:52, doi:10.3389/fevo.2019.00052.en_ZA
dc.identifier.issn2296-701X (online)
dc.identifier.otherdoi:10.3389/fevo.2019.00052
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/117411
dc.language.isoen
dc.publisherFrontiersen_ZA
dc.rights.holderAuthors retain copyright
dc.subjectAnuraen_ZA
dc.subjectCaudataen_ZA
dc.subjectGymnophionaen_ZA
dc.subjectAmphibian tradeen_ZA
dc.subjectInvasive speciesen_ZA
dc.subjectAmphibian populationsen_ZA
dc.subjectAmphibians as pets -- Health aspectsen_ZA
dc.titleWhy have a pet amphibian? insights from youtubeen_ZA
dc.typeArticleen_ZA
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