Is painting by elephants in zoos as enriching as we are led to believe?
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Is painting by elephants in zoos as enriching as we are led to believe?
The relationship between the activity of painting and performance of stereotyped and other stress-related behaviour was investigated in four captive Asian elephants at Melbourne Zoo, Australia. The activity involved the elephant being instructed to paint on a canvas by its keeper in front of an audience. Painting by elephants in zoos is commonly believed to be a form of enrichment, but this ass...
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عنوان ژورنال: PeerJ
سال: 2014
ISSN: 2167-8359
DOI: 10.7717/peerj.471