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ILAR JOURNAL
Volume 46, Issue 2, Pages 202-216Publisher
OXFORD UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1093/ilar.46.2.202
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affiliation; behavioral enrichment; environmental enrichment; mental stimulation; normal behavior
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Behavioral wellness has become a recent focus for the care of laboratory animals, farm and zoo animals, and pets. Behavioral enrichment issues for these groups are more similar than dissimilar, and each group can learn from the other. The emphasis on overall enhancement for laboratory dogs and cats in this review includes an emphasis on behavioral enrichment. Understanding the range of behaviors, behavioral choices, and cognitive stimulation that cats and dogs exhibit under non-laboratory conditions can increase the ability of investigators to predict which enrichments are likely to be the most successful in the laboratory. Many of the enrichment strategies described are surprisingly straightforward and inexpensive to implement.
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