There are many challenges animal care professionals face in the day to day implementation of a high quality enrichment program. Time and money constraints are often some of the biggest hurdles to jump through to deliver the animal effective enrichment. One of the largest roadblocks animal care staff can run into is coming up with …
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In this episode we will be exploring how training can be used effectively in an enrichment program. Read the full article HERE. Podcast is available on: Spotify iTunes Google Play
Although there are many things that go into an enrichment program in order to make it successful over the long term we believe that these things can be boiled down into 5 key elements. Natural History– A thorough understanding of an animals natural history will allow you to create species specific enrichment opportunities resulting in …
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Its been a little while since I’ve put out a build design, and I have a great one that I’m sure many of you will find very useful. Today we are going to be talking about a very versatile and relatively easy to build enrichment item, that also happens to look very cool since its …
In todays episode we talk about what I view as a guide to what a modern enrichment program should look like and how some of these topics can be built into a new enrichment program or integrated into an existing one. Podcast is available on: Itunes Spotify Google Play
Today we sit down and interview the founder of the popular Facebook group Zookreepers Caitlin Gordon-Hall. Check out Zookreepers HERE. Podcast is available on: Itunes Spotify Google Play
For this article I will be discussing what I view as a “behavioural husbandry overview” for felids. This article will include the various forms of felid enrichment and training that can be used effectively on felids, both large and small, within a zoo setting. Felids are some of my favourite animals to work with due …
In this episode we go over the fundamentals of contrafreeloading and how you can easily implement it into your behavioural husbandry program. Read the original article HERE. Podcast available on iTunes, Spotify and Google Play.
I spend a lot of time writing articles about various enrichment devices, techniques and concepts like contrafreeloading, but “enrichment” is just a part of a behavioural husbandry program in an animal care facility, the other major piece of the program is training. That is why in today’s post we are going to be taking a …
In this podcast we will answer the question, what is animal enrichment? We will go over the types of enrichment applied in a zoo and aquarium setting as well as how these various forms of enrichment can be used effectively. Read the article version HERE. Podcast available on iTunes, Spotify and Google Play.
