Behavioural biology and zoo animal welfare:

Riley, Lisa M.; Díez-León, María; Rose, Paul

doi:10.1201/9781003208471-24

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“…Ensuring that zoo-housed animals are managed according to species-appropriate evidence enhances how the zoo meets its aims (Rose et al, 2019;Rose, 2021) and all zoos should ensure that they are engaging with the latest evidence on correct species' care to remain current and relevant (Melfi, 2009;10.3389/fpsyg.2022.1018722 Frontiers in Psychology 04 frontiersin.org Rose et al, 2019). Just as animals have to respond to a changing world-which emphasizes a need for building behavioral flexibility and resilience by use of suitable environmental enrichment and husbandry training plans for species in conservation programs (Shepherdson, 1994;Reading et al, 2013;Michaels et al, 2014;Riley, 2018;Tetzlaff et al, 2019)-so too do humans have to adapt. Much literature, for example Ungar and Theron (2020) and DeRosier et al (2013), can be found on the need for human populations to build resilience and strategies for coping with the stresses of modern living to promote mental wellbeing.…”

Section: Benefits To Humans and Animalsmentioning

confidence: 99%

One Health: The Psychology of Human-Nature Relationships for Planetary and Human Wellbeing - Volume II

2024

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Section: Benefits To Humans and Animalsmentioning

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2024

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“…In scientific studies, the term cognitive enrichment has been used to refer to a variety of tasks and situations, depending on species and context, including the following: formal education and/or job complexity (in humans) [83]; a puzzle apparatus that animals figure out how to manipulate to release a toy or food [84][85][86][87][88][89][90][91]; positive reinforcement training mediated by humans (e.g., "clicker training") [92,93]; automated positive reinforcement training (e.g., an automatic feeding station at which an animal is reinforced for performing a specific task) [63,[94][95][96]; interactive computer or touchscreen tasks (e.g., searching for and touching a virtual target; navigating a virtual maze); and cognitive research or other tasks involving learning and/or problem solving (e.g., [37,91,97,98]).…”

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Minding the Minds: A Primer on Cognitive Challenge for Marine Mammals in Human Care

Jaakkola

2024

Animals

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The past several decades have witnessed significant improvement in the physical welfare of marine mammals in zoos and aquariums. Over that same time period, research has revealed complex cognitive abilities in at least some of these species, yet there has been comparatively little attention paid to addressing their cognitive welfare per se. Studies primarily conducted with terrestrial animals have suggested that providing appropriate cognitive challenges in managed care settings can improve animal well-being. As a step toward facilitating this practice with marine mammals, this paper discusses factors relevant for creating appropriate cognitive challenges, outlines the three major categories of cognitive challenge that have been utilized with marine mammals, along with the logistical pros and cons of each, and calls on organizations that care for marine mammals to cultivate a bias for action with respect to providing cognitive care.

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“…First, general environmental enhancements can improve naturalistic brain development and promote naturalistic behaviours. Second, specific and targeted challenges or experiences prior to wild release can promote specific cognitive and behavioural skills thought to enhance survival [147][148][149].…”

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“…In zoos, there has been an overwhelming focus on environmental enrichment that recreates naturalistic-looking environments but is also motivated by giving aesthetic and educational value to visitors [10,[158][159][160]. From the published literature, it seems conservationfocused enrichment has a number of goals including increasing behavioural diversity and skill learning [143,[147][148][149]161]. A recent meta-analysis of 41 vertebrate translocations found that enrichment is associated with higher survival [162], but the authors did not identify which element(s) of enrichment are linked to survival success.…”

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The endangered brain: actively preserving ex-situ animal behaviour and cognition will benefit in-situ conservation

Clark,

Greggor,

Montgomery

et al. 2023

R. Soc. open sci.

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Endangered species have small, unsustainable population sizes that are geographically or genetically restricted. Ex-situ conservation programmes are therefore faced with the challenge of breeding sufficiently sized, genetically diverse populations earmarked for reintroduction that have the behavioural skills to survive and breed in the wild. Yet, maintaining historically beneficial behaviours may be insufficient, as research continues to suggest that certain cognitive-behavioural skills and flexibility are necessary to cope with human-induced rapid environmental change (HIREC). This paper begins by reviewing interdisciplinary studies on the ‘captivity effect’ in laboratory, farmed, domesticated and feral vertebrates and finds that captivity imposes rapid yet often reversible changes to the brain, cognition and behaviour. However, research on this effect in ex-situ conservation sites is lacking. This paper reveals an apparent mismatch between ex-situ enrichment aims and the cognitive-behavioural skills possessed by animals currently coping with HIREC. After synthesizing literature across neuroscience, behavioural biology, comparative cognition and field conservation, it seems that ex-situ endangered species deemed for reintroduction may have better chances of coping with HIREC if their natural cognition and behavioural repertoires are actively preserved. Evaluating the effects of environmental challenges rather than captivity per se is recommended, in addition to using targeted cognitive enrichment.

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Behavioural biology and zoo animal welfare:

Cited by 5 publications

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One Health: The Psychology of Human-Nature Relationships for Planetary and Human Wellbeing - Volume II

One Health: The Psychology of Human-Nature Relationships for Planetary and Human Wellbeing - Volume II

Minding the Minds: A Primer on Cognitive Challenge for Marine Mammals in Human Care

The endangered brain: actively preserving ex-situ animal behaviour and cognition will benefit in-situ conservation

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