2021
DOI: 10.3390/jzbg2040038
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Abstract: The modern zoo has been associated with two major behavioral welfare advances: (a) the use of training to increase voluntary husbandry care, and (b) the implementation of environmental enrichment to promote naturalistic behaviors. Both practices have their roots in behavior analysis, or the operant conditioning-centered, reward-based approach to behavioral psychology. Operant conditioning served as the foundation for the development of reinforcement-based training methods commonly used in zoos to make veterina… Show more

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“…Enrichment practices are designed to elicit a diverse repertoire of physical behaviours, stimulating and fulfilling the cognitive [ 12 ], social [ 13 ], and emotional needs of animals [ 14 ]. Such enrichment routines, when planned carefully, varied regularly, and assessed reliably, can appreciably enhance the welfare of captive animals [ 15 ].…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Enrichment practices are designed to elicit a diverse repertoire of physical behaviours, stimulating and fulfilling the cognitive [ 12 ], social [ 13 ], and emotional needs of animals [ 14 ]. Such enrichment routines, when planned carefully, varied regularly, and assessed reliably, can appreciably enhance the welfare of captive animals [ 15 ].…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…This can be achieved by providing captive animals with opportunities that allow them to display their behavioral capabilities, which was the goal of Markowitz, one that he termed 'behavioral engineering' in the 1970s [2]. Originally based on Skinner's theory of operant conditioning, it has developed to become what we know today as 'environmental enrichment' [3]. Now, over 40 years later, environmental enrichment has become standard practice in the management of captive animals [4].…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…What can be agreed upon is that enrichment can be classified into five categories: social, physical, nutritional, occupational, and sensory [8]. Enrichment programs should aim to provide captive animals with enrichment methods from each category, rather than just one [9,10], to improve animal welfare [3] and promote the natural phenotype of their wild counterparts [11]. This is achieved by meeting goals such as increasing activity levels, natural/species-specific behaviors, choice and control, and behavioral diversity [12], as well as reducing the prevalence, or onset, of stereotypic or abnormal behaviors [13].…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…However, captive settings often lack sufficient complexity to allow the expression of a species-typical behavioral repertoire (Mallapur 2008 ; Newberry 1995 ; Young 2003 ). For this reason, environmental enrichment has become a key component of the management of captive animals (Maple and Perdue 2013 ), as it is considered an important means of improving animal welfare by providing opportunities for physical, affective and cognitive stimulation (Fernández and Martin 2021 ; Hoy et al 2010 ; Mellor 2015 ). The extensive variety of enrichment strategies used in non-human primates includes sensory stimulation (Carter et al 2021 ; Vaglio et al 2021 ), social housing (Chipangura et al 2020 ), motor or manipulative engagement (Costa et al 2018 ), and more recently, cognitive stimulation (Coleman and Novak 2017 ; Dutton et al 2018 ; Lutz and Novak 2005 ), which also includes the use of digital electronic devices (Clark 2017 ; Clark et al 2019 ; Gray et al 2018 ; Grunauer and Walguarnery 2018 ; Kim-McCormack et al 2016 ).…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%