Environmental enrichment : advancing animal care

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Allowing animals to behave naturally in captivity is a need that only recently has been met. Exhibits and environmental conditions are now based on observations of animals in their natural habitats...

Allowing animals to behave naturally in captivity is a need that only recently has been met. Exhibits and environmental conditions are now based on observations of animals in their natural habitats. This videotape is designed to provide instruction in and to promote discussion of environmental enrichment procedures for animals in zoos, laboratories, and farms, and for pet animals. Examples of enrichment include providing foraging for some animals, providing a variety of foods, providing space with items meaningful to the animal, providing companionship, providing elements of unpredictability, and providing choice in temperature, light, and weather. Common marmosets are shown in a specific example in which they are provided with hidden food to encourage foraging behavior and to discourage cage circling behavior. Other primates shown include chimpanzees, gorillas, orangutans, gibbons, pygmy marmoset, cotton-top tamarins, ring-tailed lemurs, and macaques.

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