It is standard practice on mink farms in Canada to provide one manipulable environmental
enrichment (EE) in each cage to benefit animal health and welfare, and once an enrichment …

Environmental enrichment may reduce stereotypies in fur-farmed mink. North American mink
standards require manipulable enrichment objects within cages. However, mink can rapidly …

Little is known about how animals obtain welfare benefit from environmental enrichment or
how to best implement enrichment programs. This thesis aimed to fill these gaps by …

Can simple enrichments enhance caged mink welfare? Pilot data from 756 sub-adults
spanning three colour-types (strains) identified potentially practical enrichments, and …

Zoo‐housed animals are regularly exposed to new forms of environmental enrichment to
make their lives less predictable. However, providing new enrichment can have …

Environmental enrichment (EE) reduces stereotypic behaviour (SB), but typically only
partially. Using American mink (n= 17) as models, we tested the hypotheses that the …

Simple Summary Enrichment is important for supporting the well-being of captive animals.
Enrichment increase animal quality of life through encouraging natural behaviours. As …

Simple Summary Environmental enrichments are frequently used in zoos and aquaria to
enhance animal welfare by adding or changing enclosure features and providing animals …

This study investigated whether simple, cheap enrichments–'get-away bunks'(a wire mesh
semi-cylinder attached to the cage ceiling) and small manipulable objects (balls and …

Environmental enrichment has been widely used to improve conditions for nonhuman
animals in captivity. However, there is no consensus about the best way to evaluate the …