Environmental Enrichment

Is a swimming pool safe for macaques? A discussion

Experience suggest that the provision of a shallow swimming pool provides an effective, safe environmental enrichment option for macaques.

Year Published: 2006Topics: Environmental EnrichmentAnimal Type: Macaque, Nonhuman Primate

Citation: Anonymous 2006. Is a swimming pool safe for macaques? A discussion. Laboratory Primate Newsletter 45(3), 13.

Environmental Enrichment For Nonhuman Primates Resource Guide

This publication updates and expands AWIC's Environmental Enrichment for Nonhuman Primates Resource Guide, January 1992-February 1999. It covers literature published from 1999-June 2006. The bibliographic chapters are divided into subject areas that cover the concept of environmental enrichment, enrichment for...

Year Published: 2006Topics: Environmental EnrichmentAnimal Type: Nonhuman Primate

Citation: Adams, K. M. 2006. Environmental Enrichment For Nonhuman Primates Resource Guide. Animal Welfare Information Center, Beltsville, MD.

Behaviour of the Northern Ceylon slender loris (Loris lydykkerianus nordicus) and the red slender loris (Loris tardigradus tardigradus) as a result of olfactory, visual, and auditory enrichment

Year Published: 2006Topics: Environmental EnrichmentAnimal Type: Nonhuman Primate, Other Nonhuman Primate

Citation: Ablard, K. 2006. Behaviour of the Northern Ceylon slender loris (Loris lydykkerianus nordicus) and the red slender loris (Loris tardigradus tardigradus) as a result of olfactory, visual, and auditory enrichment. RATEL (Journal of the Association of British Wild Animal Keepers) 33(1), 3-6.

Social and solitary behaviour of the Northern Ceylon slender loris (Loris tardigradus nordicus) and the red slender loris (Loris tardigradus tardigradus) as a result of olfactory, visual, and auditory enrichment

Year Published: 2006Topics: Environmental EnrichmentAnimal Type: Nonhuman Primate, Other Nonhuman Primate

Citation: Ablard, K. 2006. Social and solitary behaviour of the Northern Ceylon slender loris (Loris tardigradus nordicus) and the red slender loris (Loris tardigradus tardigradus) as a result of olfactory, visual, and auditory enrichment. Canopy 4(2), 16.

Effects of attention and rewarded activity on immune parameters and wound healing in pigs

Challenging animals with a demanding situation they are able to cope with and where they are rewarded may be a source of positive emotions and possibly of increased welfare. In order to test if this results in changes of immunological...

Year Published: 2006Topics: Environmental Enrichment, Surgery & Post-OpAnimal Type: Pig

Citation: Ernst K, Tuchschere M, Kanitz E, et al. 2006. Effects of attention and rewarded activity on immune parameters and wound healing in pigs. Physiol and Behav. 89;448-456.

Sex, age, and life history differences in the utilization of enrichment in captive lowland gorillas

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

Citation: Zambetta, K. 2005. Sex, age, and life history differences in the utilization of enrichment in captive lowland gorillas. American Journal of Physical Anthropology 126(S40), 229 (Abstract).

Expert opinion regarding environmental enrichment materials for pigs

89% of 53 pig welfare scientists stated that providing a chain was not sufficient, while 84% stated that the provision of straw could be sufficient for pigs in pens.

Year Published: 2006Topics: Environmental EnrichmentAnimal Type: Pig

Citation: Bracke, M. B. M. 2006. Expert opinion regarding environmental enrichment materials for pigs. Animal Welfare 15, 67-70.

Formalised review of environmental enrichment for pigs in relation to political decision making

The EC Directive 2001/93/EC states that: Pigs must have permanent access to a sufficient quantity of material to enable proper investigation and manipulation activities, such as straw, hay, wood, sawdust, mushroom compost, peat or a mixture of such, which does...

Year Published: 2006Topics: Environmental Enrichment, Regulations & Ethical ReviewAnimal Type: Pig

Citation: Bracke, M. B. M., Zonderland, J. J., Lenskens, P. et al. 2006. Formalised review of environmental enrichment for pigs in relation to political decision making . Applied Animal Welfare Science 97, 165-182 .

Therapeutic and protective effect of environmental enrichment against psychogenic and neurogenic stress

A preponderance of the animal research data indicates that environmental enrichment exerts therapeutic and protective (anxiolytic) effects against impending threat, enduring effects of past stressor(s) and subsequent stressors.

Year Published: 2006Topics: Environmental EnrichmentAnimal Type: All/General

Citation: Fox, C., Merali, Z., Harrison, C. 2006. Therapeutic and protective effect of environmental enrichment against psychogenic and neurogenic stress. Behavioral Brain Research 175(1), 1-8.

Effects of cage size and environmental enrichment on organ weight and leukocyte distribution in C57BL/6, BALB/c and CD-1 mice

Female mice from 3 strains were housed in polycarbonate cages each containing 4 same-strain mice under one of the following conditions: small (58cm2 per mouse) unenriched cage, small enriched cage, medium (96.8 cm2 per mouse) unenriched cage, medium enriched cage,...

Year Published: 2006Topics: Environmental Enrichment, HousingAnimal Type: Mouse, Rodent

Citation: Forsyth, N. Y., Kendall, L. V., Mench, J. A. 2006. Effects of cage size and environmental enrichment on organ weight and leukocyte distribution in C57BL/6, BALB/c and CD-1 mice. American Association for Laboratory Animal Science [AALAS] Meeting Official Program, 160 (Abstract).