Environmental Enrichment

Observations on the benefit of environmental enrichment when group housing male squirrel monkeys

Year Published: 1991Topics: Environmental EnrichmentAnimal Type: Nonhuman Primate, Squirrel Monkey

Citation: Thornhill, A. 1991. Observations on the benefit of environmental enrichment when group housing male squirrel monkeys. Institute of Animal Technology Congress Proceedings, 28 (Abstract).

Puzzle feeder for great apes

The apes could manipulate food items to the end of the pipe by poking sticks through the 2 cm diameter holes drilled along the side of the pipe facing them. When the food items reached the end of the pipe,...

Year Published: 1991Topics: Environmental EnrichmentAnimal Type: Nonhuman Primate

Citation: Shepherdson, D., Gilloux, I., Gurnell, J. 1991. Puzzle feeder for great apes. In: Environmental Enrichment Report No. 4. Universities Federation for Animal Welfare, Potters Bar, UK.

Enrichment devices for nonhuman primates

We will describe [and discuss] a number of different classes of enrichment devices that have been used at our institution or at other primate facilities. ... Sanitation is probably the most time-consuming aspect of enrichment.

Year Published: 1991Topics: Environmental EnrichmentAnimal Type: Nonhuman Primate

Citation: Schapiro, S. J., Brent, L., Bloomsmith, M. A. et al. 1991. Enrichment devices for nonhuman primates. Lab Animal 20(6), 22-28.

Technical note: A primatrail or an inexpensive cage expansion for group housing small primates

An inexpensive method for converting standard laboratory cages into colony units for housing small primate species is described. In addition to increasing the volume of space available to the animals, this system also provides a complex of climbing, running, jumping,...

Year Published: 1991Topics: Environmental Enrichment, HousingAnimal Type: Capuchin, Lemur, Macaque, Marmoset, Nonhuman Primate, Other Nonhuman Primate, Owl Monkey, Squirrel Monkey, Vervet (African Green Monkey)

Citation: Salzen, E. A., Marriott, B. M. 1991. Technical note: A primatrail or an inexpensive cage expansion for group housing small primates. Journal of Medical Primatology 20(2), 94-96.

Gorilla-approved behavioral enrichment ideas

Various enrichment items which have been popular with the gorillas are listed.

Year Published: 1991Topics: Environmental EnrichmentAnimal Type: Nonhuman Primate, Other Nonhuman Primate

Citation: Woods, S. 1991. Gorilla-approved behavioral enrichment ideas. Gorilla Gazette 5(1), 8-9.

Environmental enrichment research in a chimpanzee laboratory: Relevance to the Chimpanzoo program

A review of selected chimpanzee enrichment articles.

Year Published: 1992Topics: Environmental EnrichmentAnimal Type: Chimpanzee, Nonhuman Primate

Citation: Bloomsmith, M. A. 1992. Environmental enrichment research in a chimpanzee laboratory: Relevance to the Chimpanzoo program. ChimpanZoo Conference Proceedings, 49-54.

The use of artificial turf as a foraging substrate for individually housed rhesus monkeys (Macaca mulatta)

In this study artificial turf was used as the substrate for a particulate food given to the subjects as an environmental enrichment technique. When their cages were not enriched, eight single-caged subjects exhibited abnormal behaviors approximately 37% of the time....

Year Published: 1992Topics: Environmental Enrichment, Husbandry & ManagementAnimal Type: Macaque, Nonhuman Primate

Citation: Bayne, K., Dexter, S. L., Mainzer H et al. 1992. The use of artificial turf as a foraging substrate for individually housed rhesus monkeys (Macaca mulatta). Animal Welfare 1, 39-53.

Nonhuman Primates: Environmental Enrichment (Slide Series With Commentary)

A slide series with commentary, introducing the need for environmental enrichment, to enable the viewer to recommend environmental enrichment options that may be appropriate for the primates in their care, and to provide guidelines for monitoring nonhuman primate behaviors that...

Year Published: 1992Topics: Environmental EnrichmentAnimal Type: Nonhuman Primate

Citation: Bayne, K. 1992. Nonhuman Primates: Environmental Enrichment (Slide Series With Commentary). Health Sciences Center for Educational Resources University of Washington, Seattle, WA.

Environmental enrichment influences on body weight, feathering, food condition and behaviour of caged white leghorn hens

Novel objects, providing a diversity of tactile, visual, and auditory stimuli, hung in front of one row of caged within reach of the caged hens, improved foot and feather conditions. Enriched hens were more confident in a novel environment.

Year Published: 1992Topics: Environmental EnrichmentAnimal Type: Bird, Chicken

Citation: Church, J. S., Tennessen, T., Webster, A. B. 1992. Environmental enrichment influences on body weight, feathering, food condition and behaviour of caged white leghorn hens. Journal of Animal Science 70(Supplement 1), 175 (Abstract).

Sustaining captive primate `natural’ behavior via psychological enrichment

Valuable recommendations for the enrichment of environment for captive primates.

Year Published: 1992Topics: Environmental EnrichmentAnimal Type: Nonhuman Primate

Citation: Clark, B. 1992. Sustaining captive primate `natural' behavior via psychological enrichment. Proceedings of the National Conference of the American Association of Zoo Keepers (AAZK) 17, 123-145.