Formulating the implementation program of environmental enrichiment for zoo animals with consideration of animal welfare

2015 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 25340054
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: Environmental impact assessment
• Research Institution: Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology
• Principal Investigator: TAKEDA SHOHEI 東京農工大学, (連合)農学研究科(研究院), 准教授 (40222096)
• Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha): SUZUKI Kaoru 東京農工大学, 農学部, 准教授 (90226499)
• Project Period (FY): 2013-04-01 – 2016-03-31
• Keywords: 動物福祉 / 環境エンリッチメント / 行動学 / 実験系心理学 / 動物生理学 / 動物園動物 / 中長期的研究

Outline of Final Research Achievements

Implementing the environmental enrichment program for achieving animal welfare of improving zoo animals' living environments, measuring short-term effects are mostly as usual. There also exist long- or middle-term effects on animals. Long-, middle- or short-term effects of 3-D living environment producing arboreal life on a group of squirrel monkeys of Yumemigasaki Zoological Park in Kawasaki are measured and compared. The results revealed that also short-term effects exist, the effects continued stably for long- and middle-term. It is proved that the environmental enrichment for a basis of given animal species' life styles such as this study can be expected for producing long-term or life-long effects.

Free Research Field

比較認知心理学・動物福祉学