Ebook: Environmental enrichment for captive animals
Author: Robert J Young
- Series: UFAW animal welfare series
- Year: 2003
- Publisher: Blackwell Science
- City: Oxford, UK ; Malden, MA
- Edition: 1
- Language: English
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"Robert Young is currently Professor of Animal Behaviour at PUC-Minas (Pontifical Catholic University of Minas Gerais) in Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil."--BOOK JACKET.
Content: 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.
Abstract: "Robert Young is currently Professor of Animal Behaviour at PUC-Minas (Pontifical Catholic University of Minas Gerais) in Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil."--BOOK JACKET