Title: Environmental enrichment for captive animals
First published: 2003
Description: 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
Subjects: Captive wild animals, Environmental enrichment (Animal culture), Animal welfare, Domestic animals, Medical, Nonfiction, Animaux, Enrichissement environnemental (Zootechnie), Animaux sauvages en captivite, Animal Welfare, Reproduction animale, Protection, Animaux sauvages, Zootechnie, Protection des animaux, Animaux domestiques
LC classification: HV4737 .Y68 2003