Environmental Enrichment Measures in Zoo

Environmental Enrichment Measures in Zoo are meeting out of the physical requirements of various species of wild animals, one has to find ways to stimulate the concerned wild animal species for the purpose of exhibition of more activities in an environment.

Furnishings of the enclosures in an intellectual manner helps to enhance the activities of the targeted wild animal kept in the confined status.

Environmental enrichment enhanced the quality of captive animal care by identification and provision of environmental stimuli necessary for the optimal psychological and physiological well-being of the concerned wild animal species in a captive condition.

Goals of Environmental Enrichment in Zoo

Followings may be said as the goals of environmental enrichment:

• Enhancement of positive utilization of the environment.
• Finding an increase in range or number of normal behavioral patterns.
• Encountering reduction in the frequencies of abnormal behavior.
• Finding an increase in the behavioural diversity.
• Experiencing an increase in an animal’s ability to cope with the challenges in a more natural manner.

Enrichment Strategies

Provision of due enrichment measures varies from species to species. This is because of the variations in the requirements by the concerned wild animal species.

Required Infrastructures

These items may change the stimulus in a favorable manner:

• Toys
• Objects
• Usable surfaces
• Manipulable and movable materials
• Increased usable materials
• Facilities that requires probing or analysis by the concerned wild animal species to some extent.