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Environmental enrichment for captive animals /

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Young, Robert J. (Robert John), 1966-
Corporate Author: Wiley InterScience (Online service)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford, UK ; Malden, MA : Blackwell Science, 2003.
Series:UFAW animal welfare series.
Subjects:
Environmental enrichment (Animal culture)
Animal welfare.
Captive wild animals.
Domestic animals.
Animal Welfare.
Animals, Zoo.
Animal Husbandry.
Animals, Laboratory.
Ebooks.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book.
Table of Contents:
  • Environmental enrichment : an historical perspective
  • Why bother with environmental enrichment?
  • Does environment enrichment work?
  • Proactive v. reactive use of environmental enrichment
  • Designing an enrichment device
  • The enrichment programme
  • Enrichment for different categories of animals
  • Food and foraging enrichment
  • Social environmental enrichment
  • Housing
  • Furniture, toys and other objects
  • Designing and analysing enrichment studies
  • Information sources about environmental enrichment.