Environmental Enrichment

Environmental enrichment for zoo and domestic cats

Attention is [also] directed towards methods that could be used to enhance the day to day life of domestic cats held in captivity.

Year Published: 2001Topics: Environmental EnrichmentAnimal Type: Cat

Citation: Law, G., Grahm, D., McGowan, P. 2001. Environmental enrichment for zoo and domestic cats. Animal Technology 52, 155-163.

The effect of a Freedom Food enrichment on the behaviour of broilers on commercial farms

The effect of an environmental enrichment - straw bales - on the behaviour of growing broiler chicks was investigated. ... The birds provided with bales perched on them and clustered around them. The most striking result, however, was that, even...

Year Published: 2001Topics: Environmental EnrichmentAnimal Type: Bird, Chicken

Citation: Kells, A., Dawkins, M. S., Borja, M. C. 2001. The effect of a Freedom Food enrichment on the behaviour of broilers on commercial farms. Animal Welfare 10, 347-356.

Basic consideration for planning enrichment

Year Published: 2001Topics: Environmental Enrichment

Citation: Jackson, M. G. 2001. Basic consideration for planning enrichment. In: Proceedings of the International Conference on Environmental Enrichment. Hare, V. J., Worley, K. E., Myers, K. (eds), 33-39. The Shape of Enrichment, Edinburgh, Scotland.

Environmental enrichment and husbandry of the MPTP-treated common marmoset

One disadvantage of isosexual pairing that we have encountered is that temporary separation of the pair (e.g. for behavioural monitoring) can precipitate fighting on re-introduction. If this occurs we have found that a gradual re-association process, utilising adjacent cages to...

Year Published: 2001Topics: Environmental Enrichment, Husbandry & Management, Social Housing & CompanionshipAnimal Type: Marmoset, Nonhuman Primate

Citation: Jackson, M. J. 2001. Environmental enrichment and husbandry of the MPTP-treated common marmoset. Animal Technology(21-28).

Reducing equine stereotypies using an Equiball?

Six horses were given their evening feed in an Equiball. ... A reduction in stereotypic behaviour in five horses, and a small increase in stereotypic behaviour in one horse was observed during enrichment.

Year Published: 2001Topics: Abnormal/Problematic Behavior, Environmental EnrichmentAnimal Type: Equine

Citation: Henderson, J. V., Waren, N. K. 2001. Reducing equine stereotypies using an Equiball?. Animal Welfare 10, 73-80.

Differential effects of enrichment on learning and memory function in NR2B transgenic mice

Our biochemical experiments showed that enrichment significantly increased protein levels of GluR1, NR2B, and NR2A subunits of glutamate receptors in both wild-type and NR2B Tg mice.

Year Published: 2001Topics: Environmental EnrichmentAnimal Type: Mouse, Rodent

Citation: Tang, Y. P., Wang, H., Feng, R. et al. 2001. Differential effects of enrichment on learning and memory function in NR2B transgenic mice. Neuropharmacology 41, 779-790.

Environmental enrichment committee: Its role in program development

The role of the Environmental Enrichment Committee in developing, implementing, assessing and modifying an enrichment program for nonprimates is described and discussed.

Year Published: 2001Topics: Environmental EnrichmentAnimal Type: All/General

Citation: Stewart, K. L., Raje, S. S. 2001. Environmental enrichment committee: Its role in program development. Lab Animal 30(8), 50-52.

Developing a rodent enrichment program

A very well designed inanimate enrichment program for rodents in a pharmaceutical facility is described.

Year Published: 2001Topics: Environmental EnrichmentAnimal Type: Rodent

Citation: Smith, M. M., Hargaden, M. 2001. Developing a rodent enrichment program. Lab Animal 30(8), 36-41.

Enrichment-toy trauma in a New Zealand White Rabbit*

An injury was caused by an enrichment toy (a whiffle ball, which is a perforated hollow ball made of hard plastic) that led to its removal from the rabbit enrichment program. ... The whiffle ball had been considered safe. It...

Year Published: 2001Topics: Environmental EnrichmentAnimal Type: Rabbit

Citation: Shomer, N. H., Peikert, S., Terwilliger, G. 2001. Enrichment-toy trauma in a New Zealand White Rabbit*. Contemporary Topics in Laboratory Animal Science 40 (1), 31-32.

Environmental enrichment in a canine production facility

Enrichment is possible through selective use of materials and creative designs e.g., two-tiered cages interconnected with walk-up ram.Abstract also published in Contemporary Topics in Laboratory Animal Science 40 (4), 95, 2001.

Year Published: 2001Topics: Environmental EnrichmentAnimal Type: Dog

Citation: Scipioni Ball, R. 2001. Environmental enrichment in a canine production facility. American Association for Laboratory Animal Science [AALAS] Meeting Official Program, 106 (Abstract).