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The Environmental Enrichment Committee

Alternatives to Laboratory Animals, 2004
Both the US Guide for the Care and Use of Laboratory Animals and the Canadian Council on Animal Care Guide to the Care and Use of Experimental Animals specify that suitable enrichment and social interaction with con-specifics should be considered when planning adequate housing for all laboratory animal species.
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Environmental enrichment and brain chromatin

Behavioral and Neural Biology, 1979
Twenty-eight-day-old Fischer rats were assigned to enriched, isolated, or standard environmental rearing for 60 days. Chromatin from cortex, cerebellum, and rest of brain was assayed for capacity to support in vitro RNA synthesis. No significant differences were observed across rearing groups.
L, Uphouse, B, Tedeschi
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Environmental Enrichment for Dendrobatid Frogs

Journal of Applied Animal Welfare Science, 2003
The 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, Kitzi, Gonzalez, Mark, Halvorsen, Bruce, Foster, Don, Moore, B Diane, Chepko-Sade   +5 more
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Environmental enrichment facilitates foraging behavior

Physiology & Behavior, 1987
Mongolian gerbils (Meriones unguiculatus) were tested at 24 months of age after having experienced an outdoor desert environment for one hour each month after weaning, or at 8 months of age after being reared from birth in outsize cages in the laboratory.
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Environmental enrichment and the brain

2002
An intriguing capacity of the adult nervous system for structural and functional modification in response to external stimuli (plasticity) has been the focus of research efforts for decades. This review shows history of ideas about brain changes in relation to experiential factors and surveys experimental studies of the impact of enriched environment ...
A H, Mohammed, S W, Zhu, S, Darmopil, J, Hjerling-Leffler, P, Ernfors, B, Winblad, M C, Diamond, P S, Eriksson, N, Bogdanovic   +8 more
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RUMINANTS’ ENVIRONMENTAL ENRICHMENT

2017
Environmental 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, Žužul, Slavko, Lončarić, Nataša, Grizelj, Juraj, Dovč, Alenka, Pavičić, Željko, Gračner, Damjan   +6 more
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Environmental Enrichment for Aquatic Animals

Veterinary Clinics of North America: Exotic Animal Practice, 2015
Aquatic 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, 2010
Environmental 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 pets

Veterinary Nursing Journal, 2010
Environmental 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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Environmentally enriched dog housing

Applied Animal Behaviour Science, 1998
Abstract This paper describes the philosophy and design behind the construction and operation of three dog buildings in a facility that houses both dogs and cats in the most animal friendly conditions, providing maximum environmental interest to the pet, consistent with the requirements of nutritional and behavioural studies.
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