Space as environmental enrichment (1995)

Stricklin, W. R.

Abstract

Ultimately, animals do not have spatial needs. Instead, they have physiological and behavioral needs that can only be met through certain spatial relationships [emphasis added]. .. The long-term risk in legislation and providing specific floor area dimensions on a per animal basis is that these precisely stated numbers can lead to a possible erroneous belief that all the behavioral needs of the animals have been met.