Enrichment and Feeding

Environmental Enrichment

Wild Behaviour

Stereotyping

Examples of stereotypic behaviours

Activity in the wild

Food based enrichment

Wild animals spend lot of time and energy foraging for food
Captive animals are provided with little opportunity to forage/hunt

Physical Enrichment

Sensory Enrichment

Take care as may scare the animal, cannot guarantee good response

Social Enrichment

Cognitive Enrichment

Benefits of enrichment

Legislation

Provision of Food and Water also controlled by Animal Welfare Act 2006 (5 Freedoms)

Food Presentation

Methods of Feeding

Complete feed-style feeding:
Provision of processed diet that meet nutritional requirements of animal
Does not offer any choice

Frequency of feeding

Selective feeding

Scatter feeding

Carcass feeding

Feeding