ANIMAL BEHAVIOR
SOCIAL BEHAVIOR
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Allows the animal to use all of its senses.
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Allows the animal to sleep more comfortably.
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It provides the animal with choices and control over its environment.
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It provides the animal with novel objects.
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Detailed explanation-1: -Why is Enrichment Good? Animals that have good mental health will engage with their environment more, be less aggressive, less fearful and are more peaceful, exploratory and at ease with their surroundings. Enrichment can support this positive mental welfare and encourages natural behaviours in captive animals.
Detailed explanation-2: -The goal of environmental enrichment is to make the environment more complex and dynamic, to provide more stimulating, cognitive challenges, and opportunities to make choices, control social interactions and behave in more diverse species-specific ways.
Detailed explanation-3: -The provision of environmental enrichment (EE) for laboratory rats is recommended in European guidelines governing laboratory animal welfare. It is believed the EE implementation can improve animals’ well-being and EE has been used to demonstrate learning and plasticity of the brain in response to the environment.