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Ch 25
Enrichment 2 PSY 278
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Define Enrichment | A principle of animal husbandry that enhances the quality of captive animals' lives by identifying and providing the environmental stimuli necessary for optimal psychological and physiological well-being |
| Why do we do enrichment? | captive animals can individually alter their behaviors to be successful |
| How can an animal change who can breed because of enrichment? | successful enrichment from an animal can reproduce and be passed down by a trait |
| What was the purpose of the study down by Lacy et al in 2013? | size of experimental populations of mice across generations |
| Define R lines. | random selection of individuals |
| Define M lines. | individuals selected to minimize inbreeding |
| Define D lines. | most docile animals selected this is bad for mammals |
| What is the AZA mission? | the association of zoos and auqamines helps its members and the animals in their care thrive by providing services advancing animal welfare, public engagement, and the conservation of wildlife. |
| How to follow paradigm? | minimick nature, behavioral needs, information primacy, control |
| What do you need to consider for the perceptive routes? | heat/cool, touch, taste, olfactory, auditory |
| How can we know if there is an increase in behavior? | literature, other keepers. observation in wild |
| How can we distinguish the decreasing stereotypies? | pacing and plucking |
| What is a mirco-environment? | intrinsic or in the enclosure ex: leopards stressed from substrate they couldn't blend into visually |
| What is a marco-environment? | surrounding enclosure - nearby enclosures, visitors, keeper space |
| Fossorial | an animal the is adapted for digging |
| Semifossorial | an animal that is adapted for both digging and terrestrial living |
| aquatic | an animal that lives solely within the water |
| semiaquatic | an animal that lives in the water and terrestrially |
| volant | an animal adapted to flying or gliding |
| terrestrial | an animal adapted to living on land |
| scansorial | an animal adapted to climbing |
| aboreal | an animal adapted for living in trees |
| Piscivorous and squid eater | prey is chased in the water until captured when it is often swallowed whole and while the animal is submerged. |
| carnivore | two methods of hunting exist: 1. the prey species is chased across the terrain or sky, or (2) the prey species is ambushed |
| nectarivore | the animals moves btw patches of flowers, where it feeds usually using a specialized tongue. |
| gummivore | the animal moves btw trees where it gouges holes in the bark, normally using specialized dentition. |
| crustacivore and molluscivorous | the animals dices to the bottom of the sea and usually feels for the food using its whiskers, food is then dug up using either fins or mouth |
| myrmecophage | the animal moves btw insect nests which, typically, it breaks open with a claw and then feeds using a long, sticky tonge |
| aerial insectivore | the animal normally waits until it located insects and then chases them in air |
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