Richard And Jo Demeester's photos with the keyword: environment enrichment

Monkeys Need More Complex Toys

19 Mar 2009 252
A cardboard tube with sticks holding the fruit inside, provides quite a bit of stimulation for the monkeys.

A Fox Explores a New Toy

19 Mar 2009 256
A simple toy – a coconut, with holes, with some dry food inside. Play with the ball, collect the food.

Environment Enrichment In Action

19 Mar 2009 186
One of the margays seems to love the scented coconut thingy with feathers that we gave her to play with.

Puma Toys

19 Mar 2009 210
Ice, with some blood and feathers. These are for Samson and Delilah, two pumas, to play with in their pool.

Environment Enrichment

19 Mar 2009 212
Well, at first we were going to make a fake bird, but decided it wasn't going to fool anybody. In the end, the varying textures of grass, feathers, and palm branches, all stuck in a coconut, and scented with some essence, is what we ended up creating for the ocelot and margays.