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Enrichment 2 PSY 278

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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  
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Why do we do enrichment?   captive animals can individually alter their behaviors to be successful  
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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  
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What was the purpose of the study down by Lacy et al in 2013?   size of experimental populations of mice across generations  
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Define R lines.   random selection of individuals  
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Define M lines.   individuals selected to minimize inbreeding  
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Define D lines.   most docile animals selected this is bad for mammals  
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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.  
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How to follow paradigm?   minimick nature, behavioral needs, information primacy, control  
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What do you need to consider for the perceptive routes?   heat/cool, touch, taste, olfactory, auditory  
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How can we know if there is an increase in behavior?   literature, other keepers. observation in wild  
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How can we distinguish the decreasing stereotypies?   pacing and plucking  
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What is a mirco-environment?   intrinsic or in the enclosure ex: leopards stressed from substrate they couldn't blend into visually  
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What is a marco-environment?   surrounding enclosure - nearby enclosures, visitors, keeper space  
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Fossorial   an animal the is adapted for digging  
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Semifossorial   an animal that is adapted for both digging and terrestrial living  
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aquatic   an animal that lives solely within the water  
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semiaquatic   an animal that lives in the water and terrestrially  
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volant   an animal adapted to flying or gliding  
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terrestrial   an animal adapted to living on land  
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scansorial   an animal adapted to climbing  
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aboreal   an animal adapted for living in trees  
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Piscivorous and squid eater   prey is chased in the water until captured when it is often swallowed whole and while the animal is submerged.  
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carnivore   two methods of hunting exist: 1. the prey species is chased across the terrain or sky, or (2) the prey species is ambushed  
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nectarivore   the animals moves btw patches of flowers, where it feeds usually using a specialized tongue.  
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gummivore   the animal moves btw trees where it gouges holes in the bark, normally using specialized dentition.  
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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  
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myrmecophage   the animal moves btw insect nests which, typically, it breaks open with a claw and then feeds using a long, sticky tonge  
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aerial insectivore   the animal normally waits until it located insects and then chases them in air  
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