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Created by serenacutbill
over 11 years ago
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Environmental Enrichment
Wild Behaviour
Stereotyping
Examples of stereotypic behaviours
Activity in the wild
Food based enrichment
Wild animals spend lot of time and energy foraging for food
Captive animals are provided with little opportunity to forage/hunt
Physical Enrichment
Sensory Enrichment
Take care as may scare the animal, cannot guarantee good response
Social Enrichment
Cognitive Enrichment
Benefits of enrichment
Legislation
Provision of Food and Water also controlled by Animal Welfare Act 2006 (5 Freedoms)
Food Presentation
Methods of Feeding
Complete feed-style feeding:
Provision of processed diet that meet nutritional requirements of animal
Does not offer any choice
Frequency of feeding
Selective feeding
Scatter feeding
Carcass feeding
Feeding