Environmental Enrichment

Enrichment options: Primates (title-double)

Description of simple custom-made foraging devices.

Year Published: 1998Topics: Environmental EnrichmentAnimal Type: Nonhuman Primate

Citation: Wages, J. 1998. Enrichment options: Primates (title-double). Animal Keepers' Forum 25(1), 26-27.

Low-cost environmental enrichment plan for laboratory macaques

One day a week, we take a group of three to four sinlgy and pair-housed macaques from their cages to a social pen where they have the opportunity to forage for monkey chow and sunflower seeds [scattered on woodchips]. .......

Year Published: 1998Topics: Environmental EnrichmentAnimal Type: Macaque, Nonhuman Primate

Citation: Taylor, W. J., Laudenslager, M. L. 1998. Low-cost environmental enrichment plan for laboratory macaques. Lab Animal 27(4), 28-31.

Interactions among environmental enrichment, viewing crowds, and zoo chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes)

Responses to enrichment were influenced by the larger contextual surround of viewing crowed. Across the study's four conditions, larger crowds were generally significantly associated with decreased frequencies of foraging, object-using, grooming and playing.Abstract of this work has been published in:...

Year Published: 1998Topics: Environmental EnrichmentAnimal Type: Chimpanzee, Nonhuman Primate

Citation: Wood, W. 1998. Interactions among environmental enrichment, viewing crowds, and zoo chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes) . Zoo Biology 17, 211-230.

Mobility as enrichment for captive primates

A transport box with 4-wheeled dolly is described. The apparatus is used to drive one chimpanzee around for enrichment.

Year Published: 1998Topics: Environmental EnrichmentAnimal Type: Chimpanzee, Nonhuman Primate

Citation: Williams, S. L., Kelley, J. W. 1998. Mobility as enrichment for captive primates. Laboratory Primate Newsletter 37(2), 3-4.

Managing the environmental enrichment program for nonhuman primates and domestic farm animals housed at the National Institutes of Health

The management of the animal enrichment program within the National Institutes of health is described. Nonhuman primates are housed in isosexual pairs and groups whenever possible.

Year Published: 1998Topics: Environmental Enrichment, Social Housing & CompanionshipAnimal Type: Cattle, Chicken, Equine, Goat, Nonhuman Primate, Other Animal, Pig, Rabbit, Sheep

Citation: Watson, L. M., Weed, J. L. 1998. Managing the environmental enrichment program for nonhuman primates and domestic farm animals housed at the National Institutes of Health. American Journal of Primatology 45, 211-212 (Abstract).

Nonhuman primate outside housing in subtropical South Florida

The implementation of an enriched housing environment outside is more attainable than possible inside.

Year Published: 1998Topics: Environmental Enrichment, HousingAnimal Type: Nonhuman Primate

Citation: Wagner, J. L., Disbrow, M. R., Santana, J. 1998. Nonhuman primate outside housing in subtropical South Florida. In: Proceedings of the International Conference on Environmental Enrichment. Hare, V. J. , Worley, E. (eds), 245-247. The Shape of Enrichment, San Diego, CA.

Environmental enrichment of brown capuchins (Cebus apella): Behavioral and plasma and fecal cortisol measures of effectiveness

Plasma cortisol was significantly predicted by the proportions of both normal and abnormal behaviors; as the proportion of normal behavior increased, the plasma cortisol measures decreased. ... In light of our experimental findings that a variety of EE [environmental enrichment]...

Year Published: 1999Topics: Environmental EnrichmentAnimal Type: Capuchin, Nonhuman Primate

Citation: Boinski, S., Swing, S. P., Gross, T. S. et al. 1999. Environmental enrichment of brown capuchins (Cebus apella): Behavioral and plasma and fecal cortisol measures of effectiveness . American Journal of Primatology 48, 49-68.

The influence of environmental enrichment on social behaviour in captive long-tailed macaques (Macaca fascicularis)

Year Published: 1999Topics: Environmental EnrichmentAnimal Type: Macaque, Nonhuman Primate

Citation: Barbe, S. 1999. The influence of environmental enrichment on social behaviour in captive long-tailed macaques (Macaca fascicularis). Folia Primatologica 70(4), 193. (Primate Meeting Abstract)

Monkey World’s woolly monkey habitat

Several simple feeding enrichment devices, including a herb garden, are described.

Year Published: 1999Topics: Environmental EnrichmentAnimal Type: Nonhuman Primate, Other Nonhuman Primate

Citation: Ames, A., Cronin, J. 1999. Monkey World's woolly monkey habitat. International Zoo News 46, 214-220.

Enrichment in group-housed laboratory golden hamsters

Enriched hamsters [four same-sexed animals per group] showed varied behavior and less aggression toward their cagemates. The hamsters preferred jars to pipes probably because the jars' greater height, as compared to pipes, made it easy to look outside the cage.

Year Published: 1998Topics: Environmental EnrichmentAnimal Type: Hamster, Rodent

Citation: Arnold, C. E., Westbrook, R. D. 1997/1998. Enrichment in group-housed laboratory golden hamsters. Animal Welfare Information Center (AWIC) Newsletter 8(3/4), 22-24.