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Evaluating the effectiveness of environmental enrichment

Taking the absence of behavioral disorders as a criterion for the effectiveness of an environmental enrichment strategy .. is therefore unrealistic. ... An environmental enrichment strategy is ineffective if it does not promote the expression of species-typical behavior patterns in...

Year Published: 1990Animal Type: All/General

Citation: Reinhardt, V. 1990. Evaluating the effectiveness of environmental enrichment. Laboratory Primate Newsletter 29(1), 15.

Bordeom and Laboratory Animal Welfare

Boredom is the process in which animals gradually cease to be active interactors and loose their interest in the environment, becoming apathetic and/or inflexible in their responses.

Year Published: 1990Animal Type: All/General

Citation: Wemelsfelder, F. 1990. Bordeom and Laboratory Animal Welfare. In: The Experimental Animal in Biomedical Research. Rollin, B. E. (ed), 243-272. CRC-Press, Boca Raton, FL.

Environmental Enrichment (Videotape With Commentary)

A demonstration of some feeding enrichment possibilities for various zoo animals, including marmosets.

Year Published: 1990Animal Type: All/General, Marmoset, Nonhuman Primate

Citation: UFAW [Universities Federation for Animal Welfare] 1990. Environmental Enrichment (Videotape With Commentary) . Countywise Communication.Available on loan from Animal Care Audio-Visual Materials, WRPRC, 1220 Capitol Court, Madison, WI 53715, USA, Potters Bar, UK.

Training as a management tool: Creating the climate and maintaining the momentum

A general discussion of training programs.

Year Published: 1991Animal Type: All/General

Citation: Baker, A. 1991. Training as a management tool: Creating the climate and maintaining the momentum. American Zoo and Aquarium Association (AZA) Annual Conference Proceedings, 563-568.

The 1985 animal welfare act amendments

It is only common sense, for instance, that an animal will not respond normally if it is stressed or undernourished. ... Because the validity of research results is so dependent on the health of research animals, the future of science...

Year Published: 1991Topics: Regulations & Ethical ReviewAnimal Type: All/General

Citation: Schwindaman, D. 1991. The 1985 animal welfare act amendments. In: Through the Looking Glass. Issues of Psychological Well-Being in Captive Nonhuman Primates. Novak, M. A. , Petto, A. J. (eds), 26-32. American Psychological Association, Washington, DC.

Training for behavioral enrichment and species propagation

The purpose of this project is to demonstrate that operant conditioning and positive reinforcement training techniques can be utilized in a zoo setting to provide environmental enrichment.

Year Published: 1991Animal Type: All/General

Citation: Hogan, M. 1991. Training for behavioral enrichment and species propagation. American Zoo and Aquarium Association (AZA) Annual Conference Proceedings, 629 (Abstract).

Effects of social interaction on well-being: Development aspects

Captive animals will be served best if developing individuals are raised at least through weaning by their biological mothers and have the experience of living in a social group that approximates the size and age-sex composition of the group in...

Year Published: 1991Animal Type: All/General

Citation: Mason, W. A. 1991. Effects of social interaction on well-being: Development aspects. Laboratory Animal Science 41, 323-328 .

Learning principles as they apply to animal husbandry

A general discussion of training techniques. An initial investment in training time may well 'pay for itself' when that training allows for a quick and safe execution of a husbandry or medical routine. No data are included in this article.

Year Published: 1991Animal Type: All/General

Citation: Mellen, J. D. 1991. Learning principles as they apply to animal husbandry. American Zoo and Aquarium Association (AZA) Annual Conference Proceedings, 548-552.

Stereotypies: a critical review

Stereotypies are physically or temporally associated with lack of stimulation, or events such as acute stressors or the expected arrival of food. All these environments may involve chronic conflict and frustration and hence stress. Other stereotypies are relatively independent of...

Year Published: 1991Animal Type: All/General

Citation: Mason, G. J. 1991. Stereotypies: a critical review. Animal Behaviour 41, 1015-1037.

The role of husbandry in promoting the welfare of laboratory animals

Thorough discussion of environmental enrichment strategies. Pragmatic reasons support ethical ones for improving the laboratory environment. ... An important, and often neglected, source of social enrichment, especially when animals must be isolated from conspecifics, is attention from caretakers and technicians....

Year Published: 1991Topics: Husbandry & ManagementAnimal Type: All/General

Citation: Reese, E. P. 1991. The role of husbandry in promoting the welfare of laboratory animals. In: Animals in Biomedical Research. Hendriksen, C. F. M. , Koeter, H. B. W. M. (eds), 155-192. Elsevier, Amsterdam, Netherlands.