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An environmental enrichment model for mice
Nature Protocols, 2010Environmental enrichment for animals is a combination of complex inanimate and social stimulation and generally consists of housing conditions that facilitate enhanced sensory, cognitive, motor and social stimulation relative to standard housing conditions.
Yehezkel, Sztainberg, Alon, Chen
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Environmental Enrichment for Laboratory Rodents
ILAR Journal, 2005Modernization of housing and husbandry techniques for rodents has minimized confounding variables. The result has been vastly improved health maintenance and reproducibility of research findings, advances that have decreased the numbers of animals needed to attain statistically significant results.
Eric, Hutchinson +2 more
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Environmental Enrichment for Dendrobatid Frogs
Journal of Applied Animal Welfare Science, 2003The Central Park Zoo, one of the Wildlife Conservation Society's Living Institutions in New York, recently renovated an exhibit for dart-poison frogs. Staff developed a new hollow coconut insect feeder in conjunction with this project. When the exhibit change, coconut feeder, and other enrichments were tested for effectiveness, the coconut feeder ...
Kristiina, Hurme +5 more
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Environmental Enrichment: Room for Reduction?
Alternatives to Laboratory Animals, 2004Environmental enrichment strategies are usually regarded as refinement. However, when the welfare of animals is enhanced through successful enrichment programmes, a reduction in the number of animals needed can be expected, because fewer animals might be lost during the course of experiments.
van de Weerd, H.A. +2 more
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Environmental Enrichment for Aquatic Animals
Veterinary Clinics of North America: Exotic Animal Practice, 2015Aquatic animals are the most popular pets in the United States based on the number of owned pets. They are popular display animals and are increasingly used in research settings. Enrichment of captive animals is an important element of zoo and laboratory medicine. The importance of enrichment for aquatic animals has been slower in implementation. For a
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Organic wheatgrass as environmental enrichment
Lab Animal, 2010Environmental enrichment must be provided for the various animal species that are housed in laboratory animal facilities. Wheatgrass can be used as a natural form of enrichment that requires minimal preparation and effort. Wheatgrass is appropriate enrichment for cats, rabbits, guinea pigs, rodents and birds.
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Environmental enrichment for pigs
Veterinary Record, 2006SIR, – I read with interest the paper on the factors appearing to cause gastric ulceration in finisher pigs by Amory, MacKenzie and Pearce ( VR , February 25, 2006, vol 158, pp 260-264), where they describe the introduction of straw to the finishing pens as enrichment.
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Environmental enrichment for pets
Veterinary Nursing Journal, 2010Environmental enrichment is now commonly accepted practice for zoo, farm and laboratory animals. But what about domestic pets? Do our pets need environmental enrichment?
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RUMINANTS’ ENVIRONMENTAL ENRICHMENT
2017Environmental enrichment usually refers to modification of the animals’ environment, thus improving biological function by increasing the number and range of the type of normal behaviour, preventing the occurrence and development, the frequency and severity of abnormal behaviour, or increasing the available space and reducing stress.
Gregurić Gračner, Gordana +6 more
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