enrichment

this thread you can name an animal and if some on knows they can tell you that animals enrichment.

La Ferme aux Crocodiles has the largest Nile croc collection in Europe (if not the world) with over 400 specimens, as well as having very active reptiles. This particular one was using a water stream as a slide, which was adorable to see! This was in their outside enclosure

1300m2 (0,3 acre/13400ft2) dry moat style exhibit for gray woolly monkeys (lagothrix cana).

In pretty much every Zoo I visited, even modern and big exhibits, great apes have no acces to trees, they are either weired, to stop the apes to climb on them, or are not even present. My question is why. (With few exeptions like the Gorilas exhibit in Apenheul) Zoos don't give them acces...

This is around a third of the exhibit. They have a small pool, a mud wallow and enrichment scattered around the exhibit.

I'm not sure if a thread like this has been posted before, but which animals do you think get the best enclosures typically? Perhaps meerkats or prairie dogs, or maybe poison dart frogs?

Hi, my name is Nathan Sweeting and I live and work in Florida, USA. I am the owner and Park Director of a newer and growing Zoological/Crocodile Park called Smooth Waters Wildlife Park, and have focused the bulk of my nearly 30 year career in the Zoos & Attractions industry, on husbandry...

Painting is fast becoming a popular method of enrichment in zoos. This thread is for discussion of animal paintings, and their use in enrichment. It can also be used for listing zoos that allow animals to paint, or about animal paintings you own. I would also like to hear about any photos of...

Hello everyone! I am currently a masters student studying Zoo Biology at Sparsholt university centre. For my dissertation research, I am studying the effect of enrichment on pygmy hippos but am also doing a questionnaire to collect data on the publics understanding of pygmy hippos. As many of...

Hello! I'm working at my university's student-run farm where we primarily house production sheep and goats. We have dorset lambs who are by themselves for a variety of reasons (one is a triplet, one was being picked on by its sibling, etc). They won't be by themselves for very long but we are...

Heyo I was wondering why there are no naturalistic dolphin exhibits. Seals and Penguins have some naturalistic exhibits but dolphins don't? There also seems to be a lack of enrichment in most dolphin exhibits. Any reasons why dolphins seem to be getting overlooked?