Enrichment is an important part of animal care.
It is made up of the many ways in which keepers provide zoo animals with opportunities to express species-typical behaviors. It also gives animals choices and some control over their environment. All these types of foods and ways of presenting them give animals the opportunity to hunt or forage for their food and work at eating it, activities that most animals in the wild spend a great deal of time doing. A large rubber ball gives takins something to kick and butt with their heads. Spray from a hose gives a jaguar an unexpected rain shower.