Despite the advances in live feed enrichments, the live feeds, particularly Artemia, were found to have sub-optimal lipid profiles.
Geckos spent more time interacting with Thermal and Feeding enrichment than the other types (F 4,60) = 49.84, p < 0.001).
For captive chimpanzees, daylong feeding enrichment, offering longer feeding times as comparable to those of their wild counterparts, is expected to alleviate undesirable behavior.
Given that these methods are inexpensive, easy to implement and also led to significant behavioral changes, simple feeding enrichment of this kind is a useful potential tool for captive ring-tailed lemur management.
Feeding enrichment is a commonly proposed way to promote natural behavior, greater activity levels and improved health in captive primates, but in many cases the methods have not been formally tested, especially for particular groups such as lemurs.
In the US, federal guidelines extensively regulate aspects of NHP housing, feeding, enrichment, and breeding.
So far, most feeding enrichments permit an animal to use only one type of processing for each food item.
Important aspects such as the design of enclosures, secure handling and keeping, thermoregulation, protection of animals, feeding, behavioural enrichment and diseases and their prophylaxis are important topics.
Slugs were kept in plastic containers on moistened tissue paper and fed sliced carrot, Chinese cabbage and a commercial piglet feed for protein enrichment (Format Kvikk 160, Felleskjøpet Agri, Norway).
