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"This book deserves to be bought and read by a wide audience. It should be required reading for all undergraduate students intending to carry out research projects involving environmental enrichment."
Animal Welfare
"Scientific and passionate in the promotion of environmental enrichment."
Lab Animal News (US)
"Professor Young effortlessly leads the reader through the important scientific concepts and recognises the human dimension to what happens in practice. He writes with the passion of someone dedicated to improving animals in captivity."
"In short, if you want to learn more about environmental enrichment I do not know of a better place to turn, whatever your background."
Veterinary Times, 2004
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This book is the first to integrate scientific knowledge and principles to show how environmental enrichment can be used on different types of animal. Filling a major gap, it considers the history of animal keeping, legal issues and ethics, right through to a detailed exploration of whether environmental enrichment actually works, the methods involved, and how to design and manage programmes.
- The first book in a major new animal welfare series
- Draws together a large amount of research on different animals
- Provides detailed examples and case studies
- An invaluable reference tool for all those who work with or study animals in captivity
This book is part of the UFAW/Wiley–Blackwell Animal Welfare Book Series. This major series of books produced in collaboration between UFAW (The Universities Federation for Animal Welfare), and Wiley–Blackwell provides an authoritative source of information on worldwide developments, current thinking and best practice in the field of animal welfare science and technology. For details of all of the titles in the series see www.wiley.com/go/ufaw.
In 1985, the Congress of the USA passed amendments to the Animal Welfare Act that directed the Animal Plant and Health Inspection Service (APHIS) to promulgate regulations that provide for the psychological well-being of non-human primates (Bloomsmith et al., 1991). Read the first page
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