Environmental Enrichment for Captive Animals (eBook)

Robert Young is currently Professor of Animal Behaviour at PUC-Minas (Pontifical Catholic University of Minas Gerais) in Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil where he works on environmental enrichment in zoos and conducts field research on a number of different species. He has given lectures, workshops and mini-courses on the subject of environmental enrichment in the UK, USA, Denmark, Russia and Brazil.

Preface.

Acknowledgements.

1. Environmental Enrichment: An Historical Perspective.

2. Why Bother with Environmental Enrichment?.

3. Does Environmental Enrichment Work?.

4. Proactive v. Reactive Use of Environmental Enrichment.

5. Designing an Enrichment Device.

6. The Enrichment Programme.

7. Enrichment for Different Categories of Animals.

8. Food and Foraging Enrichment.

9. Social Environmental Enrichment.

10. Housing.

11. Furniture, Toys and Other Objects.

12. Designing and Analysing Enrichment Studies.

13. Information Sources About Environmental Enrichment.

References.

Glossary.

Index.

"Young's précis of the 'animal rights' viewpoint is one of the
best I have read in some time."

"This book deserves to be bought and read by a wide audience. It
should be required reading for all undergraduate students intending
to carry out research projects involving environmental
enrichment."

Animal Welfare

"Scientific and passionate in the promotion of environmental
enrichment."

Lab Animal News (US)

"Professor Young effortlessly leads the reader through the
important scientific concepts and recognises the human dimension to
what happens in practice. He writes with the passion of someone
dedicated to improving animals in captivity."

"In short, if you want to learn more about environmental
enrichment I do not know of a better place to turn, whatever your
background."

Veterinary Times, 2004