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- Providing nutritional support to ill reptiles is crucial as they often experience anorexia, which can be addressed through assist-feeding techniques.
- Neonatal reptiles may require extra attention to establish normal feeding behaviors to thrive.
- The article emphasizes the importance of timely nutritional intervention and offers specific recommendations while also highlighting nutritional challenges in captive reptile species.
Article Abstract
Providing nutritional support to reptile patients is a challenging and often misunderstood task. Ill reptiles are frequently anorexic and can benefit greatly from appropriate nutrition delivered via a variety of assist-feeding techniques. Neonatal reptiles can also be very challenging patients because many fail to thrive without significant efforts to establish normal feeding behaviors. This article presents ideas supporting the benefit of timely nutritional support as well as specific recommendations for implementation of assist feeding. Also discussed are a few nutritional issues that affect captive reptile species.
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| http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cvex.2014.01.009 | DOI Listing |
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