Articles related to "Environmental Enrichment"

The quality of kennel design can greatly affect the residents, staff and success of a commercial or charitable dog boarding establishment.

Environmental enrichment techniques can be used to modify cat behavior. These methods decrease stress thereby reducing inappropriate or undesirable behaviors.

Environmental enrichment helps zoo animals stay active. At the National Zoo in Washington, DC, biologists and volunteers work with Augusta, a giant Pacific octopus.

Enrichment is the practice of providing animals with interactions that simulate their natural habitat. Learn how zoo keepers, pet owners, and breeders all use enrichment.

Giraffes are intelligent animals, and need plenty of interaction to keep them healthy. Zoo keepers use a variety of enrichment techniques for these long necked ungulates.

Environmental enrichment for a mouse is as important as with other pets, perhaps more so because you can't play with your mouse in the same way as you would a dog or cat.

Enrichment is the practice of providing animals with interactions that simulate their natural habitat. Learn how zoo keepers keep their animals happy and healthy.

PETA seeks reports from citizen whistleblowers, zoo volunteers and staff on animal abuse in zoos, improper care of captive animals and other concerns. Call 866-ZOO-TIPS.

UCLA study indicates that one of the benefits of meditation might be larger volumes of gray matter in the parts of the brain that regulate emotions and control responses.