![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Sugar gliders are also very social animals, and can self mutilate when kept alone. Species such as African grey parrots can pluck out their own feathers due to boredom and a lack of opportunity to socialize with other parrots. ![]() Problems also arise when social animals are kept in isolation, or solitary animals are kept with others. A study published in 2019 demonstrated that snakes need space to stretch their bodies to their full natural length, but in fact they are commonly kept in small vivaria and racking systems that don’t allow them to do this. They are often kept by people who don’t know how to care for them, or in conditions that don’t correspond to their physiological and ethological needs. A study in 2013 under the United Nations Environment Programme in West and Central Africa estimated that for every chimpanzee kept as a pet or in a zoo, another ten die in capture or trade conditions.Įven if they survive the journey to Europe, the animals’ suffering is far from over. Crude and non-species-specific methods may be used to catch wild animals, which can damage the ecosystem and result in injuries or death for both target and non-target animals. The capture of animals in the wild can deplete native populations by up to 70%, according to the EcoHealth Alliance, and threaten biodiversity. ![]()
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