Snakes, lizards and cockroaches: Man’s best friends?
No. 44 JANUARY 2020
Imagine having these as pets… scorpions, tarantulas, toucans, ferrets, monkeys or chimpanzees, spiders, lizards, giant wood lice, ants, cockroaches, lions, a seven-metre python or an African elephant weighing four thousand kilos. In Portugal, more and more people are choosing exotic animals as pets and the market for them is increasing. Why? What motivates them? What care and laws should they respect? What species can be a good and happy companion for human beings?
In this portrait, in conversations with owners, breeders, biologists and veterinarians, the surprising world of the adoption of exotic animals is revealed – a trend that implies responsibilities and, in extreme cases, can lead to environmental and public health issues, but that can also mean a new and unusual path in the coexistence of humans and animals.
Book recommended by the National Reading Plan.
Imagine having these as pets… scorpions, tarantulas, toucans, ferrets, monkeys or chimpanzees, spiders, lizards, giant wood lice, ants, cockroaches, lions, a seven-metre python or an African elephant weighing four thousand kilos. In Portugal, more and more people are choosing exotic animals as pets and the market for them is increasing. Why? What motivates them? What care and laws should they respect? What species can be a good and happy companion for human beings?
In this portrait, in conversations with owners, breeders, biologists and veterinarians, the surprising world of the adoption of exotic animals is revealed – a trend that implies responsibilities and, in extreme cases, can lead to environmental and public health issues, but that can also mean a new and unusual path in the coexistence of humans and animals.
Book recommended by the National Reading Plan.
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Dimensions
6.5 × 130 × 200 mm
ISBN
978-989-9004-09-2
Book available only in Portuguese
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