Environmental Enrichment

Chapter 4.17. Vertical Space Enhancement

Most of the primates' natural environment is fixed. Even a tree is fixed; it's only at the end of branches where a monkey in nature would have the sensation of anything like a swinging perch. A fixed perch is a...

Year Published: 2007Topics: Environmental EnrichmentAnimal Type: Macaque, Nonhuman Primate

Citation: LAREF [Laboratory Animal Refinement and Enrichment Forum] 2007. Chapter 4.17. Vertical Space Enhancement. In: Making Lives Easier for Animals in Research Labs: Discussions by the Laboratory Animal Refinement & Enrichment Forum - . Baumans, V., Coke, C., Green, J., Moreau, E., Morton, D., Patterson-Kane, E., Reinhardt, A., Reinhardt, V., Van Loo, P. (eds), 82-85. Animal Welfare Institute, Washington, DC.

Chapter 4.3. Feeding Enrichment

I have given whole watermelons to group-housed rhesus, cynos, bonnet and stump-tailed macaques for several years without noticeable adverse effects. It would be a waste of time to cut the melons into small pieces. The monkeys first gnaw a hole...

Year Published: 2007Topics: Environmental EnrichmentAnimal Type: Nonhuman Primate

Citation: LAREF [Laboratory Animal Refinement and Enrichment Forum] 2007. Chapter 4.3. Feeding Enrichment. In: Making Lives Easier for Animals in Research Labs: Discussions by the Laboratory Animal Refinement & Enrichment Forum. Baumans, V., Coke, C., Green, J., Moreau, E., Morton, D., Patterson-Kane, E., Reinhardt, A., Reinhardt, V., Van Loo, P. (eds), 52-57. Animal Welfare Institute, Washington, DC.

Chapter 4.7. Windows

We expose our squirrel monkeys to natural daylight via big windows during the summer. This is supplemented with artificial light in late fall and early spring, when the days are short, and throughout the winter. Some of our squirrel monkeys...

Year Published: 2007Topics: Environmental Enrichment, HousingAnimal Type: Nonhuman Primate, Squirrel Monkey

Citation: LAREF [Laboratory Animal Refinement and Enrichment Forum] 2007. Chapter 4.7. Windows. In: Making Lives Easier for Animals in Research Labs: Discussions by the Laboratory Animal Refinement & Enrichment Forum. Baumans, V., Coke, C., Green, J., Moreau, E., Morton, D., Patterson-Kane, E., Reinhardt, A., Reinhardt, V., Van Loo, P. (eds), 65-66. Animal Welfare Institute, Washington, DC.

Chapter 4.5. Mirrors

All of our single-housed long-tailed macaques have mirrors mounted on swivels that are attached to the outside of their cages, low enough so that an animal can chose to either bend down and intentionally look into the mirror or to...

Year Published: 2007Topics: Environmental EnrichmentAnimal Type: Macaque, Nonhuman Primate

Citation: LAREF [Laboratory Animal Refinement and Enrichment Forum] 2007. Chapter 4.5. Mirrors. In: Making Lives Easier for Animals in Research Labs: Discussions by the Laboratory Animal Refinement & Enrichment Forum. Baumans, V., Coke, C., Green, J., Moreau, E., Morton, D., Patterson-Kane, E., Reinhardt, A., Reinhardt, V., Van Loo, P. (eds), 60-61. Animal Welfare Institute, Washington, DC.

Chapter 4.4. Coconuts

Rhesus don't care much about coconuts, but stump-tailed macaques are fascinated by them and do not get tired working on them until the last morsel has disappeared in the drop pan. It never occurred that one of the monkeys somehow...

Year Published: 2007Topics: Environmental EnrichmentAnimal Type: Macaque, Nonhuman Primate

Citation: LAREF [Laboratory Animal Refinement and Enrichment Forum] 2007. Chapter 4.4. Coconuts. In: Making Lives Easier for Animals in Research Labs: Discussions by the Laboratory Animal Refinement & Enrichment Forum. Baumans, V., Coke, C., Green, J., Moreau, E., Morton, D., Patterson-Kane, E., Reinhardt, A., Reinhardt, V., Van Loo, P. (eds), 60-61. Animal Welfare Institute, Washington, DC.

Ping-pong balls: an economical idea to enrich marmosets

Year Published: 2007Topics: Environmental EnrichmentAnimal Type: Marmoset, Nonhuman Primate

Citation: Sgai, M. G. F. G., Von Seldler Stasieniuk, E., Da Rocha, C. et al. 2007. Ping-pong balls: an economical idea to enrich marmosets . Shape of Enrichment 16(1&2), 4.

Environmental enrichment for captive animals

Year Published: 2007Topics: Environmental Enrichment

Citation: Ruppell, J. 2007. Environmental enrichment for captive animals. Gibbon's Voice 9(1), 4-7.

Enrichment for Sumatran orangutans at Perth Zoo

Year Published: 2007Topics: Environmental EnrichmentAnimal Type: Nonhuman Primate, Other Nonhuman Primate

Citation: Roberts, C. 2007. Enrichment for Sumatran orangutans at Perth Zoo. Australian Primatology 18(1), 24-25 (Abstract).

Orangutan enrichment: rope art

Year Published: 2007Topics: Environmental EnrichmentAnimal Type: Nonhuman Primate, Other Nonhuman Primate

Citation: Pizzutto, C. S., Sgal, M. G. F. G., Prist, P. R. et al. 2007. Orangutan enrichment: rope art. Shape of Enrichment 16(3), 7.

Use of animal-operated folding perches by rhesus macaques (Macaca mulatta)

This study focused primarily on 2 issues: more efficient use of existing caging and providing animals with a measure of control over their environments. We designed a new springloaded folding perching apparatus that, when modified for size, could be added...

Year Published: 2007Topics: Environmental EnrichmentAnimal Type: Macaque, Nonhuman Primate

Citation: Novak, M., Kenney, C., Suomi, S. J. et al. 2007. Use of animal-operated folding perches by rhesus macaques (Macaca mulatta). Journal of the American Association for Laboratory Animal Science [Contemporary Topics in Laboratory Animal Science] 46(6).