Clifford Warwick

It cannot be very often that a child instinctively wants a clownfish from a swell of 28,000 Piscean potentials, or that one morning an adult wakes up and spontaneously says “I’ve just got to have a mo…

Wildlife markets have never been more infamous. From live invertebrates to primates, and from animals’ dried heads to their privates, some “dead or alive” wildlife markets have become the anything goe…

Too often, spatial provisions are decided by what is thought convenient for owners rather than what is better for animals

A veterinarian should play no part in the wild capture, captive breeding, selling or keeping of exotic animals as pets

Having isolated ourselves from the natural world, do humans have misconceptions of welfare in the wild?

"Folklore husbandry” is an emerging term describing the phenomenon of unevidenced, pseudoscientific, convenience-led habit and opinion handed down from one ill-informed animal keeper to the next. Kev…

The term “exotic” can mean several things. Setting aside “unusual” or “strange”, exotic might be interpreted as something that isn’t where it should be. For most, if not all, exotic pets (ie pet wildl…