Simple Summary Reptiles are popular pets around the world, although their welfare
requirements in captivity are not always met, due in part to an apparent lack of awareness of …

Sleep is ubiquitous in the animal kingdom and yet displays considerable variation in its
extent and form in the wild. Ecological factors, such as predation, competition, and …

In recent decades, husbandry techniques have generally improved to better facilitate the
general health and welfare of captive reptiles, although many harmful practices remain. In …

Covering diverse species from garter snakes to Komodo dragons, this book delves into the
evolutionary origins and fascinating details of the mysterious social lives of reptiles. Reptiles …

Our knowledge of the conservation status of reptiles, the most diverse class of terrestrial
vertebrates, has improved dramatically over the past decade, but still lags behind that of the …

Despite abundant evidence to the contrary, non-avian reptiles are widely considered as
behavioural and cognitive underachievers. The persistent myth of the sluggish, primitive …

Identifying factors responsible for the emergence and evolution of social complexity is an
outstanding challenge in evolutionary biology. Here we report results from a phylogenetic …

Lizards, snakes and amphisbaenians (worm lizards) form a monophyletic group (the
squamate reptiles), which contains 9,712 species (Uetz & Hošek, 2015) in 61 families …

Many animal species exist in fission–fusion societies, where the size and composition of
conspecific groups change spatially and temporally. To help investigate such phenomena …

Amphibians and reptiles are highly threatened vertebrate taxa with large numbers of species
threatened with extinction. With so many species at risk, conservation requires the efficient …