Table 1.
Percentage of reptiles acquired over five years preceding the study which were reported by respondents (N = 265) to be captive bred, wild, captive farmed or of unknown origin.
Also includes the number of respondents and the total number of individual animals used in the analysis.
Table 2.
Bootstrapped mean number of reptiles that died within a year of acquisition, over five years preceding the study, including 95% confidence intervals, estimated for additive (aRRT) and direct questions (DQ) via 1000 bootstrap samples.
Fig 1.
Bootstrapped reptile mortality rates within first year of acquisition.
The bootstrapped proportion of deaths within first year of acquisition for commonly kept reptile groups. Circles indicate mean mortality rate based on x 1000 bootstrap samples obtained from direct questions, lines represent 95% confidence intervals. Inset displays mean mortality rates for snakes, chelonians and lizards analysed separately for those reported to be captive bred (CB) and those reported to be either wild (W), or captive farmed (CF). Reptiles reported to be unknown origin (U) may represent captive bred or wild individuals and were therefore excluded. Refer to Table 2 for n numbers used in analysis of mortality rates.
Table 3.
Evaluation of respondents’ rating of ‘difficulty’ and ‘survival’ for different reptile groups, which they had acquired.
Questions were asked using a five point Likert scale, with categories condensed for data presentation.