Environmental Enrichment

Controllability in environmental enrichment for captive chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes)

The animals used destructible enrichment items more than undestructible items.

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

Citation: Videan, E. N., Fritz, J., Schwandt, M. L. et al. 2005. Controllability in environmental enrichment for captive chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes). Journal of Applied Animal Welfare Science 8, 117-130.

Shaping sound environments II: naturalistic sounds as enrichment for cotton-top tamarins

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

Citation: Tromborg C 2005. Shaping sound environments II: naturalistic sounds as enrichment for cotton-top tamarins. The Shape of Enrichment 14(3-4), 10-11.

Use of low-dose chlorpromazine in conjunction with environmental enrichment to eliminate self-injurious behavior in a rhesus macaque (Macaca mulatta)

A 7-year-old, captive-bred, female rhesus macaque was placed in a quarantine facility upon arrival at our institution. At release from quarantine, she was observed pawing at and chewing on her left cheek. ... SIB in this animals seemed likely in...

Year Published: 2005Topics: Abnormal/Problematic Behavior, Environmental EnrichmentAnimal Type: Macaque, Nonhuman Primate

Citation: Taylor, D. K., Bass, T., Flory, G. S. et al. 2005. Use of low-dose chlorpromazine in conjunction with environmental enrichment to eliminate self-injurious behavior in a rhesus macaque (Macaca mulatta). Comparative Medicine 55(3), 282-288.

Risks associated with environmental enrichment: Intestinal obstruction caused by foraging substrate

Questions are occasionally asked about the safety of enrichment techniques, considering that many novel ways are frequently employed to ensure environmental complexity. A juvenile male vervet monkey was found with a phytobezoar of straw obstructing the sigmoid colon. The straw...

Year Published: 2005Topics: Environmental EnrichmentAnimal Type: Nonhuman Primate, Vervet (African Green Monkey)

Citation: Seier, J. V., Dhansay, M. A., Davids, A. 2005. Risks associated with environmental enrichment: Intestinal obstruction caused by foraging substrate. Journal of Medical Primatology 34(3), 154-155.

A recipe for success ? Novel dietary enrichment for nonhuman primates

When using the mixture in an ice cream cone or modified device, the animals readily accept it.

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

Citation: Semler, G., Baer, J., Conboy, T. et al. 2005. A recipe for success ? Novel dietary enrichment for nonhuman primates. Tech Talk [The Newsletter for Laboratory Animal Science Technicians] 10(1), 4.

Enrichment for Nonhuman Primates: Squirrel Monkeys (Saimiri)

Excellent introduction to species-adequate enrichment for squirrel monkeys.

Year Published: 2005Topics: Environmental EnrichmentAnimal Type: Nonhuman Primate, Squirrel Monkey

Citation: Schuler, A. M. , Abee, C. R. 2005. Enrichment for Nonhuman Primates: Squirrel Monkeys (Saimiri). Office of Laboratory Animal Welfare, Bethesda, MD.

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.