Environmental Enrichment for Captive Animals

Captive animals deserve an environment which is rich in social
opportunity, mental stimulation, and physical challenges.

Information Resources on the Web

• Enrichment Online
  
  
• Environmental Enrichment for Primates (Database; Reinhardt & Reinhardt)
  
  
• Environmental Enrichment Scrapbook (Barnum-Scrivener)
  
  
• Laboratory Primate Newsletter - Articles on Environ. Enrich. and Psychological Well-Being
  
  
• The Shape of Enrichment (Organization & Magazine)
  
  
• Laboratory Primate Advocacy Group - Mental Health & Well-Being
  
  
• Enrichment @ International Wildlife Education & Conservation
  
  
• Maddie's Pet Adoption Center at the SF SPCA (model enriched pound)
  
  
• Environmental Enrichment for Laboratory Animals (Database; Reinhardt & Reinhardt)
  
  
• Zoo Husbandry and Research: An Integrated Approach (James Rice)
  
  
• Environmental Enrichment Information Resources for Nonhuman Primates: 1987-1992
  
  
• Enrich. Interviews Conducted by Two Students, Christopher Greeley and Anne Galligan
  
  
• Environmental Enrichment for Farm Animals (Database; Reinhardt & Reinhardt)
  
  
• Behavioral Enrichment at Animal People Online
  
  
• Environmental Enrichment for Confinement Pigs
  
  
• Great EscApe at the Oklahoma Zoo
  
  
• Think Tank at the National Zoo in DC
  
  
• Guidelines from the Canadian Council on Animal Care
  
  
• Environ-Richment; Housing for Non-Human Primates
  
  
• Wolf Park: Behavioral Enrichment of Captive Animals
  
  
• Primate Enrichment Forum (discussion group)
  
  
• Life is a Jungle for Some Animals Kept Behind Bars (Carrie Dolan)
  
  
• Enrichment topics at Tracks Magazine Online
  
  
• References for Enrichment in Shelter Animals (Tufts)
  
  
• Environ. Enrich. in Captive Marmosets & Tamarins (Hannah Buchanan-Smith)
  
  
• Destructible Toys as Enrichment for Captive Chimpanzees (Linda Brent)
  
  
• Guidelines for Environmental Enrichment
  
  
• Modern Zoos (PBS)
  
  
• Colored Light as Environ. Enrich. for Captive Chimpanzees (Fritz, Howell, & Schwandt)
  
  
• Enrichment @ the Oregon Zoo
  
  
• ZCOG: Animal Management & Enrichment (San Diego Zoo)
  
  
• Enrichment for Caged Rhesus Macaques (Reinhardt; slides)
  
  
• The "Bungie Swing" for Chimpanzees (Struthers, Wilbarger, & Harvey)
  
  
• Animal Boredom - A Model of Chronic Suffering in Captive Animals and Its Consequences for Environ. Enrich. (F. Wemelsfelder)
  
  
• Wildlife Waystation's Animal Enrichment Essays
  
  
• Environ. Enrich. for NonHuman Primates: An Annotated Bibliography for Animal Care Personnel (Reinhardt, Reinhardt, & Seelig)
  
  
• Environ. Enrich.: Does It Reduce Barbering in Mice (AWIC)
  
  
• Inexpensive Feeding Equipment and Techniques for Primate Enrichment (Pastorello)
  
  
• Exercise & Enrichment for Cats Housed at Yale
  
  
• Comfortable Quarters for Laboratory Dogs
  
  
• Common Enrichment Devices and Programs
  
  
• Comfortable Environmentally Enriched Housing for Domestic Cats
  
  
• Friends of Washoe - Chimpanzee Enrichment
  
  
• AWIC's Enrichment for Lab Animals (1965-1995)
  
  
• Animal Legislation and Policies Home Page (AWIC)
  
  
• Lab Enrichment Equipment & Accessories
  
  
• Disney's Animal Enrichment Program

Print Resources

• Markowitz, H., 1982. Behavioral Enrichment in the Zoo. Nostran Reinhold Co., New York.
• Markowitz, H., 1993. Power for Captive Animals: Contingencies and Nature. Paper presentation at 1st Conference on Environmental Enrichment, Portland, Oregon.
• National Research Council,1984. Nutrient Requirements of Cats. National Academy of Sciences: Washington, DC.

If you know of any articles or other resources on the Web dealing with Enrichment for Animals, please Email Me.

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