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STUDENT : ERICA DA SILVA BACHETTI
DATE: 28/02/2024
TIME: 13:30
LOCAL: Universidade Federal de São João del - Rei/UFSJ
TITLE:

Environmental enrichment for animals under human care: a gap analysis...17 years later

KEY WORDS:

captive environment, animals under human care, animal welfare, animal husbandry

PAGES: 53
BIG AREA: Ciências Biológicas
AREA: Ecologia
SUMMARY:

Environmental enrichment is a management principle aimed at meeting the needs of animalsunder human care, identifying and providing essential environmental stimuli in order tocontribute to the integrity of their psychological, physical and physiological well-being. Thetechnique allows unwanted behaviour to be avoided. This study assessed, by means of asystematic review, the global scenario of research into environmental enrichment inanimalskept under human care over the last 17 years, checking whether the gaps pointedout byAzevedo et al. (2007) have been filled. A search was carried out in The Web of ScienceandScopus databases, from January 2005 to December 2021, and 2002 articles were evaluated. Theresults showed an increase in the number of articles published on environmental enrichment in the given period. The general analysis of the results, compared to the gaps in 2007, showedanincrease in studies carried out in farm environments, but studies carried out in laboratoryenvironments continue to be more frequent. Mammals and birds are still the most studiedanimal groups. The use of cognitive enrichment is still the least utilised by researchers. Thenumber of publications by researchers from countries in the southern hemisphere is still scarce. Taken together, the results showed that although the technique of environmental enrichment isbeing widely used, it is still focused on certain groups of animals, in certaincaptiveenvironments and carried out mainly in the northern hemisphere of the planet. Therefore, part of the gaps pointed out by Azevedo et al. (2007) have still not been filled, even 17 years afterthe data was published.

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