{"id":362,"date":"2021-02-03T22:15:34","date_gmt":"2021-02-03T21:15:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/zoosnippets.com\/?page_id=362"},"modified":"2021-02-04T22:16:43","modified_gmt":"2021-02-04T21:16:43","slug":"what-is-enrichment-rotation","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/zoosnippets.com\/what-is-enrichment-rotation","title":{"rendered":"What Is Enrichment Rotation?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

What is enrichment rotation, and how do you apply it in your enrichment program? When developing an enrichment program, you determine which animal requires enrichment, and you decide the frequency, variety and variation<\/a> of the enrichment. You try to stimulate the animals’ full behavioural and therefore use different types of enrichment<\/a>. When you used an enrichment item at one animal, it can be very enriching when you rotate this same enrichment item for another animal. For example, when you use a big hanging log of wood to stimulate the manipulative behaviour of an oryx, it can very effectively trigger responses in a carnivore like lions and tigers, to express olfactory-related behaviours. These animals want to set off their smell again on this log piece when this novel odour is in their territory. In a nutshell, therefore, enrichment rotation can be defined as “rotating enrichment items between different animal species where the enrichment item’s effect is amplified to trigger species-specific behaviours.” With this concept, you can stimulate specific behaviours<\/a> that otherwise will not be encouraged.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Enrichment rotation<\/p>

” Rotating enrichment items between different animal species where the enrichment item’s effect is amplified to trigger species-specific behaviours. “<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Rules to take into account when rotating enrichment<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

When implementing rotation enrichment in your enrichment program<\/a>, you should make attention to the considerations below. Rotation enrichment is not well-documented or researched, and mostly based on error-and-trail assumptions.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n