Environmental Enrichment for Captive Animals (eBook)

Robert J. Young (Autor)

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2008 | 1. Auflage
240 Seiten
Wiley (Verlag)
978-1-4051-7228-8 (ISBN)

Infos

Environmental enrichment is a simple and effective means of improving animal welfare in any species companion, farm, laboratory and zoo. For many years, it has been a popular area of research, and has attracted the attention and concerns of animal keepers and carers, animal industry professionals, academics, students and pet owners all over the world. This book is the first to integrate scientific knowledge and principles to show how environmental enrichment can be used on different types of animal. Filling a major gap, it considers the history of animal keeping, legal issues and ethics, right through to a detailed exploration of whether environmental enrichment actually works, the methods involved, and how to design and manage programmes. The first book in a major new animal welfare series Draws together a large amount of research on different animals Provides detailed examples and case studies An invaluable reference tool for all those who work with or study animals in captivity This book is part of the UFAW/Wiley-Blackwell Animal Welfare Book Series. This major series of books produced in collaboration between UFAW (The Universities Federation for Animal Welfare), and Wiley-Blackwell provides an authoritative source of information on worldwide developments, current thinking and best practice in the field of animal welfare science and technology. For details of all of the titles in the series see www.wiley.com/go/ufaw

Autor

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.

Inhalt

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.

Rezensionen

"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

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 8.5.2008
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Medizin / Pharmazie
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Ökologie / Naturschutz
• Themenwelt: Veterinärmedizin
• Schlagworte: Animal Welfare, Ethics & Law • Tierschutz, Ethik u. Recht • Veterinärmedizin • Veterinärmedizin f. Zoo- u. Wildtiere • Veterinärmedizin • Veterinärmedizin f. Zoo- u. Wildtiere • Veterinary Medicine • Veterinary Medicine - Zoo & Wildlife
• ISBN-10: 1-4051-7228-2 / 1405172282
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4051-7228-8 / 9781405172288