Exotic Pests
- Annotated Bibliography
Brulliard. K. (2019). The trouble with tigers in America. Retrieved from https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2019/investigations/captive-tigers-america/
In the article, the author evaluates the struggles people experience due to exotic pets. For instance, exotic pets such as the tiger undermine the public safety of the United States citizens. Such animals do not seem to forget their wildness sides despite being kept form their wild homes. The article is relevant in the study topic since it provides a reason as to why exotic pests should not be house by people.
Bush, E. R., Baker, S. E., & Macdonald, D. W. (2014). Global Trade in Exotic Pets 2006-2012. Conservation Biology, 28(3), 663–676. Retrieved from https://sci-hub.tw/10.1111/cobi.12240
In the article, the authors analyze the importance of exotic pets in international trade as well as increasing biodiversity loss driver and how it compromises the required standards for significant animal welfare. The authors are in the argument that wild animals offer suitable incredible learning experience group. Most countries including engage in trade involving the exotic pets. The article is relevant in demonstrating the importance of exotic pests.
Franchise Help (2020) “Pet Care Industry Analysis 2020 – Cost & Trends”. Retrieved from https://www.franchisehelp.com/industry-reports/pet-care-industry-analysis-2020-cost-trends/
The article provides an analysis of the pet industry within the United States. The statistic indicates that most homes have pets. Besides the domestic pets, including cats, dogs, and birds, others have opted for the exotic once such as tortoise, scorpions, lizards, hedgehogs, fish, and tarantula. The article is significant in demonstrating the essence of exotic pets as it provides the desired learning experience.
Hess, L. (2011). Exotic animals: appropriately owned pets or inappropriately kept problems?. Journal of avian medicine and surgery, 25(1), 50-56. Retrieved from: https://bioone.org/journals/Journal-of-Avian-Medicine-and-Surgery/volume-25/issue-1/1082-6742-25.1.50/Exotic-Animals-Appropriately-Owned-Pets-or-Inappropriately-Kept-Problems/10.1647/1082-6742-25.1.50.short
The article tends to explore how exotic pets have managed to gain popularity and their impacts. The authors used the example where Burmese pythons were released to the Everglades, threatening the existence of other species. Thus keeping such animals becomes a danger to society. The article is relevant in demonstrating why people should not keep exotic pets.
Janos. A. (2020). How Burmese Pythons Took Over the Florida Everglades. Retrieved from https://www.history.com/news/burmese-python-invasion-florida-everglades
In the article, the author evaluates the effect of exotic pets on human lives. The author sources example from a case of South Florida which suffered due to the invasion of the Burmese python. The exotic pets did not just threaten human beings but also other animals. The article is relevant in demonstrating the adverse impact associated with exotic pets.
Warwick, C., Steedman, C., Jessop, M., Arena, P., Pilny, A., & Nicholas, E. (2018). Exotic pet suitability: Understanding some problems and using a labeling system to aid animal welfare, environment, and consumer protection. Journal of Veterinary Behavior, 26, 17–26. Retrieved from https://sci-hub.tw/10.1016/j.jveb.2018.03.015
The authors analyze the significant role played by exotic pets which are non-native to nondomesticated and region. However, there are critics regarding them to be inhumane. Thus, the unwanted have to be submitted to the animal care centers. The article is relevant in exploring the inhuman nature of exotic pets.
Yasobant, S., Saxena, D., Bruchhausen, W., Memon, F. Z., & Falkenberg, T. (2019). Multi-sectoral prioritization of zoonotic diseases: One health perspective from Ahmedabad, India. PLOS ONE, 14(7), p. 1-13. Retrieved from https://sci-hub.tw/10.1371/journal.pone.0220152
In the article, the authors explore the relationship between exotic pets and zoonotic diseases. There are various exotic animals such as lizards, bats, and monkeys carry elements that can cause illness to human beings. And this has caused the United States to illegalize the process of handling bats. The article is relevant in exploring the adverse impact of exotic pets on human beings.
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Yasobant, S., Saxena, D., Bruchhausen, W., Memon, F. Z., & Falkenberg, T. (2019). Multi-sectoral prioritization of zoonotic diseases: One health perspective from Ahmedabad, India. PLOS ONE, 14(7), p. 1-13. Retrieved from https://sci-hub.tw/10.1371/journal.pone.0220152
The source is credible in the sense that exotic pets are considered to be the primary course of zoonotic diseases. Any disease that spreads from animals to the people is called zoonotic or zoonosis. It is caused by bacteria, viruses, and parasites that spread between animals (usually vertebrates) and humans. In most cases, such an infectious disease resulting from exotic pets may become a pandemic. Zoonoses are diseases that are transmitted to humans from sources in animals. They can be bacteria, parasites, viruses, or fungi. They can be transmitted by blood, saliva urine, or feces of an infected animal. We often think these are diseases in far away places, or from long-ago times (in Black Plague) and not a problem. They present a worldwide public challenge.75% of newly discovered diseases are zoonoses. And they are common. They are often spread by ticks and mosquitos, as well as direct bite or scratches. Many may be familiar: rabies, psittacosis (a concern for those with pet birds), toxoplasmosis from cat feces making litter box dust hazardous to folks with depressed immune systems, and pregnant women. Ringworm, West Nile Virus, Lyme Ds, and Hantavirus sometimes the pathogens may be shed into food and water. Big factor agriculture is varying as workers may get infected.
For instance, the bats originating from North America are affiliated with rabies, yersiniosis, salmonellosis, and histoplasmosis. Elsewhere, the United States considers it to be illegal to engage in any process of handling bats. Wild animals and birds are a huge reservoir of disease vectors, one mutation away from trouble. The combination of uprooting natural habitats, factory farming, proximity to various wildlife, our worldwide travel habits, and the pathogens (especially the RNA viruses) ability to mutate quickly and often make fertile ground for sickness to take seed and spread. There are a lot of humans around, so from the “bugs” point of view, there are plenty of chances to hop ship from wildlife to people. Of course, it is a war, and globally we are on guard and fighting the good fight, but it will be a war we will always have to fight. Diseases that affect only humans are easier to control or eradicate than something that fights guerrilla-style by playing hide, seek, and mutate across multiple life forms.
The source is useful in the sense that if a pathogen has an animal and environmental reservoir, it is impossible to eliminate the disease from one species (humans) without also eliminating it from its reservoir because there will always be spillover. Rabies is the closest to an eradicable zoonotic disease as we have; if we could eliminate canine rabies, we would virtually eliminate human rabies. In this case, it is resources, attention, and will that are lacking. Even if we accomplished this, there would still be sporadic instances of humans bitten by other rabid animals, like bats, cats, raccoons, etc. This is why our best hope in controlling the infectious zoonotic disease is 1) to stop human encroachment on wild animal habitats to minimize contact and 2) to develop human (companion animal) vaccines and use them widely for both clinical and herd effect protection against infection.