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Behavioral enrichment, the Glossary

Behavioral enrichment is an animal husbandry principle that seeks to enhance the quality of captive animal care by identifying and providing the environmental stimuli necessary for optimal psychological and physiological well-being.^[1]

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Amphibian

Amphibians are ectothermic, anamniotic, four-limbed vertebrate animals that constitute the class Amphibia.

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Animal

Animals are multicellular, eukaryotic organisms in the biological kingdom Animalia.

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Animal husbandry

Animal husbandry is the branch of agriculture concerned with animals that are raised for meat, fibre, milk, or other products.

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Animal sanctuary

An animal sanctuary is a facility where animals are brought to live and to be protected for the rest of their lives. Behavioral enrichment and animal sanctuary are animal welfare.

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Animal shelter

An animal shelter or pound is a place where stray, lost, abandoned or surrendered animals – mostly dogs and cats – are housed. Behavioral enrichment and animal shelter are animal welfare.

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Animal testing

Animal testing, also known as animal experimentation, animal research, and in vivo testing, is the use of non-human animals, such as model organisms, in experiments that seek to control the variables that affect the behavior or biological system under study.

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Animal welfare

Animal welfare is the well-being of non-human animals.

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Animal Welfare Act of 1966

The Animal Welfare Act (Laboratory Animal Welfare Act of 1966) was signed into law by President Lyndon B. Johnson on August 24, 1966.

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Animal welfare science

Animal welfare science is the scientific study of the welfare of animals as pets, in zoos, laboratories, on farms and in the wild. Behavioral enrichment and animal welfare science are animal welfare and ethology.

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Association of Zoos and Aquariums

The Association of Zoos and Aquariums (AZA), originally the American Association of Zoological Parks and Aquariums, is an American 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization founded in 1924 and dedicated to the advancement of zoos and public aquariums in the areas of conservation, education, science, and recreation.

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Carnivora

Carnivora is an order of placental mammals that have specialized in primarily eating flesh, whose members are formally referred to as carnivorans.

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Classical music

Classical music generally refers to the art music of the Western world, considered to be distinct from Western folk music or popular music traditions.

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Cognition

Cognition is the "mental action or process of acquiring knowledge and understanding through thought, experience, and the senses".

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Cognitive bias

A cognitive bias is a systematic pattern of deviation from norm or rationality in judgment.

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Consumer demand tests (animals)

Consumer demand tests for animals are studies designed to measure the relative strength of an animal's motivation to obtain resources such as different food items. Behavioral enrichment and Consumer demand tests (animals) are animal welfare and ethology.

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Corticosteroid

Corticosteroids are a class of steroid hormones that are produced in the adrenal cortex of vertebrates, as well as the synthetic analogues of these hormones.

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Denver Zoo

Denver Zoo Conservation Alliance is an nonprofit zoological garden and conservation organization located in City Park of Denver, Colorado, United States.

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Ecology

Ecology is the natural science of the relationships among living organisms, including humans, and their physical environment.

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Eggshell

An eggshell is the outer covering of a hard-shelled egg and of some forms of eggs with soft outer coats.

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Endangered species

An endangered species is a species that is very likely to become extinct in the near future, either worldwide or in a particular political jurisdiction.

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Ethogram

An ethogram is a catalogue or inventory of behaviours or actions exhibited by an animal used in ethology. Behavioral enrichment and ethogram are ethology.

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Fitness (biology)

Fitness (often denoted w or ω in population genetics models) is a quantitative representation of individual reproductive success.

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Frustration

In psychology, frustration is a common emotional response to opposition, related to anger, annoyance and disappointment.

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Heart rate

Heart rate is the frequency of the heartbeat measured by the number of contractions of the heart per minute (beats per minute, or bpm).

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Immune system

The immune system is a network of biological systems that protects an organism from diseases.

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Japanese macaque

The Japanese macaque (Macaca fuscata), also known as the snow monkey, is a terrestrial Old World monkey species that is native to Japan.

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List of abnormal behaviours in animals

Abnormal behaviour in animals can be defined in several ways. Behavioral enrichment and List of abnormal behaviours in animals are animal welfare and ethology.

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Mammal

A mammal is a vertebrate animal of the class Mammalia.

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Marine mammal

Marine mammals are mammals that rely on marine (saltwater) ecosystems for their existence.

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Neuroethology

Neuroethology is the evolutionary and comparative approach to the study of animal behavior and its underlying mechanistic control by the nervous system. Behavioral enrichment and Neuroethology are ethology.

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Neuroscience

Neuroscience is the scientific study of the nervous system (the brain, spinal cord, and peripheral nervous system), its functions and disorders.

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Pet

A pet, or companion animal, is an animal kept primarily for a person's company or entertainment rather than as a working animal, livestock, or a laboratory animal.

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Preference test

A preference test is an experiment in which animals are allowed free access to multiple environments which differ in one or more ways. Behavioral enrichment and preference test are animal welfare and ethology.

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Quality of life

Quality of life (QOL) is defined by the World Health Organization as "an individual's perception of their position in life in the context of the culture and value systems in which they live and in relation to their goals, expectations, standards and concerns".

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Reproduction

Reproduction (or procreation or breeding) is the biological process by which new individual organisms – "offspring" – are produced from their "parent" or parents.

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Stereotypy (non-human)

In animal behaviour, stereotypy, stereotypic or stereotyped behaviour has several meanings, leading to ambiguity in the scientific literature. Behavioral enrichment and stereotypy (non-human) are animal welfare and ethology.

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Thermography

Infrared thermography (IRT), thermal video and/or thermal imaging, is a process where a thermal camera captures and creates an image of an object by using infrared radiation emitted from the object in a process, which are examples of infrared imaging science.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Behavioral_enrichment

Also known as Animal enrichment, Behavioural enrichment.

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