Environmental Enrichment

Room to hop

Practical enrichment possibilities for group-housed rabbits are described.

Year Published: 2005Topics: Environmental Enrichment, HousingAnimal Type: Rabbit

Citation: Down, N. 2005. Room to hop. Animal Welfare Institute (AWI) Quarterly 54(4), 17-18.

Pigeons used in research: From barren single-housing to an enriched environment

Single-caged pigeons were successfully transferred to compatible group-housing.

Year Published: 2005Topics: Environmental Enrichment, HousingAnimal Type: Bird, Other Bird

Citation: Conte, A. 2005. Pigeons used in research: From barren single-housing to an enriched environment. AWI Quarterly 54(3) (Summer), 14-15.

Efficacy of four novel enrichment items in outdoor group-housed macacauqe (Macaca mulatta and M. fascicularis)

Year Published: 2005Topics: Environmental EnrichmentAnimal Type: Macaque, Nonhuman Primate

Citation: Coke, C. S., Patel, E. R. 2005. Efficacy of four novel enrichment items in outdoor group-housed macacauqe (Macaca mulatta and M. fascicularis): Differences in age, sex, and species classes. American Journal of Primatology 66(Supplement), 177 (Abstract).

Forage box as enrichment in single- and group-housed callitrichid monkeys

When presented with food, common marmosets will more often take it directly into their mouths than use their hands. This might explain why in the conditions where a lid was used, there were fewer forage-related hand movements than might have...

Year Published: 2005Topics: Environmental Enrichment, Social Housing & CompanionshipAnimal Type: Marmoset, Nonhuman Primate, Other Nonhuman Primate

Citation: Chamove, A. S., Scott, L. 2005. Forage box as enrichment in single- and group-housed callitrichid monkeys. Laboratory Primate Newsletter 44(2), 13-17.

Environmental enrichment for monkeys using plants

Growing the plants was problematic and costly, and did not appear to make a clear and interpretable difference in the behavior of the monkeys. .. A more substantial benefit from the vertical mesh was that a part of the cage...

Year Published: 2005Topics: Environmental EnrichmentAnimal Type: Nonhuman Primate

Citation: Chamove, A. S. 2005. Environmental enrichment for monkeys using plants. Laboratory Primate Newsletter 44(2), 1-5.

Effect of environmental enrichment during nutritional rehabilitation onbody growth, blood parameters and cerebral cortical development of rats

Environmental enrichment during nutritional rehabilitation enhancesdendritic branching and thickness of the occipital cortex.

Year Published: 2005Topics: Environmental EnrichmentAnimal Type: Rat, Rodent

Citation: Carughi, A., Carpenter, K. J., Diamond, M. C. 1989. Effect of environmental enrichment during nutritional rehabilitation onbody growth, blood parameters and cerebral cortical development of rats. Journal of Nutrition 119, 2005-2016.

Effects of specific noise and music stimuli on stress and fear levels of laying hens of several breeds

The results of the present study indicate that specific noise stimulus (90 dB versus 65 dB) causes stress and fear in laying hens and specific classical music stimulus (75 dB versus 65 dB) has a negative influence on their fearfulness.

Year Published: 2005Topics: Environmental Enrichment, Husbandry & ManagementAnimal Type: Bird, Chicken

Citation: Campo, J. L., Gil, M. G., Dávila, S. G. 2005. Effects of specific noise and music stimuli on stress and fear levels of laying hens of several breeds. Applied Animal Behaviour Science 91(1-2), 75-84.

Enrichment strategies for laboratory animals form the viewpoint of clinical veterinary behavioral medicine: Emphasis on cats and dogs

Understanding the range of behaviors, behavioral choices, and cognitive stimulation that cats and dogs exhibit under non-laboratory conditions can increase the ability of investigators to predict which enrichments are likely to be the most successful in the laboratory. Many of...

Year Published: 2005Topics: Environmental Enrichment, Natural BehaviorAnimal Type: Cat, Dog

Citation: Overall, K. L., Dyer, D. 2005. Enrichment strategies for laboratory animals form the viewpoint of clinical veterinary behavioral medicine: Emphasis on cats and dogs. ILAR Journal 46(2), 202-216.

Time course of behavioral changes following basal forebrain cholinergic damage in rats: Environmental enrichment as a therapeutic intervention

Environment enrichment had significant beneficial effects in 192 IgG-saporin-lesioned rats.

Year Published: 2005Topics: Environmental EnrichmentAnimal Type: Rat, Rodent

Citation: Paban, V., Jaffard, M., Chambon, C. et al. 2005. Time course of behavioral changes following basal forebrain cholinergic damage in rats: Environmental enrichment as a therapeutic intervention. Neuroscience 132, 13-32.

The differential effects of four types of environmental enrichment on the activity budgets, fearfulness, and social proximity preference of Japanese quail

Foraging enrichment had the most positive behavioural effects while social housing had some negative effects.

Year Published: 2005Topics: Environmental EnrichmentAnimal Type: Bird, Fowl

Citation: Miller, K. A., Mench, J. A. 2005. The differential effects of four types of environmental enrichment on the activity budgets, fearfulness, and social proximity preference of Japanese quail . Applied Animal Behaviour Science 95, 169-187.