Preliminary Analysis on and Strategies for the Enrichment Loss of Captive Exhibiting Animals in Anhui Province
In this paper,literature survey and field survey were adopted to analyse the enrichment strategies and welfare measures of exhibiting animals in captivity.The results showed that 196 papers were published from 2014 to 2023 with an annual publication vol-ume of more than 10,an accumulated enrichment type expressions of 222 was counted into 5 enrichment types,including 112 expres-sions of environmental enrichment(50.5%),42 ones of food enrichment(18.9%),33 ones of social enrichment(14.9%),23 ones of per-ceptive enrichment(10.4%)and 12 ones of cognitive enrichment(5.0%),among which the dominant expressions were the environmen-tal enrichment and food enrichment ones with a combined number of 154(nearly 70.0%).The enrichment species were mostly primates and the main enrichment materials were green plants,ecological animal specimens,animal imitations,perches,cushion material,shel-ters,toys,stimuli(auditory,visual,action training)and equipment and instruments.Based on the survey,near-natural enrichment form and components and materials of enrichment contents of different types of zoos were put forward,and it is also suggested that compre-hensive consideration of management objectives should be taken and corresponding policies and measures should be formulated by for-estry administrative departments to ensure and improve the welfare level of captive animals.
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