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Animal Enrichment
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What is it?
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Enrichment improves the lives of animal...
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… by creating a dynamic event in an otherwise static environment
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Enrichment can be a well designed habitat
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Or some form of challenge or entertainment
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Enrichment can be complicated
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Enrichment can be simple
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Enrichment can also be upcycled!
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But how does it affect animals?
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One study found lab mice with enrichment had improved brain development, less abnormal behavior, and less anxiety compared to those without enrichment. (Wolfer 2004)
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Additionally it doesn't affect individual variability or data in studies. (Wolfer 2004)
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So what goes into creating enrichment?
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First you need to understand the animals
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What does it do?
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What does it
eat?
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Where does it live?
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How do they act?
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And why would it want to interact
with your enrichment
device?
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So here’s an example...
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Primates forage for their food
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They enjoy eating fruit
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They are arboreal
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And they are
curious!
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Putting all this together lets us make this enrichment device
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The chimps have to climb and
forage for their food
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So instead of
putting food in a
bowl
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The chimp has to work for his food
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Giving him a challenge and something to
do
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This helps prevent zoochosis and stereotypic behavior
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Overall improving his life
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Here are some examples of enrichment
devices
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Carcass/ Live Feeding!
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Painting
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Rich environment!
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Puzzles
Games
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Even Easter Eggs!
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Animal enrichment is limited by only two things:●Animal life history
●Human creativity
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References:Wolfer, David P., Oxana Litvin, Samuel Morf, Roger M. Nitsch, Hans-Peter Lipp, and Hanno Würbel. "Laboratory Animal Welfare: Cage Enrichment and Mouse Behaviour." Nature 432.7019 (2004): 821-22. Web.
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