The objective of this study was to determine if neonatal piglets would interact with environmental enrichment ropes, drawing them away from the sow. A total 84 9 sows were housed in farrowing stalls. Litters provided ropes hung at piglet eye level above a heat mat on Day 2 5 after farrowing. assigned one three rope treatments: 1) sunflower oil (OIL), 2) semiochemical (SC) and 3) milky cheese (M...

The political, economic and environmental policies of a hegemonic, oligarchic, political-economic international caste are the origin and cause of the ecological and political dystopia that we are living in. An utilitarian,resourcist, anthropocentric perspective guides classical economics and sustainable development models, allowing the enrichment of a tiny part of the world's population, wh...

Although there have been few demonstrations of a direct empirical relationship between environmental enrichment and reproductive success in captive animals, indirect and anecdotal evidence indicates the importance of physical and temporal complexity for reproduction. We discuss three major mechanisms through which environmental enrichment that specifically increases the complexity of an animal'...

1 Division of Geriatric Medicine, NEUROTEC, Karolinska Institutet, S-141 86 Huddinge, Sweden 2 Division of Molecular Neurobiology, Department of Medical Biochemistry and Biophysics, Karolinska Institutet, S-171 77 Stockholm, Sweden 3 Department of Integrative Biology, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720-3140, USA 4 Department of Clinical Neuroscience, Sahlgrenska University Hospital, G...

Potential stressors of wildlife living in captivity, such as artificial living conditions and frequent human contact, may lead to a higher occurrence of disease and reduced reproductive function. One successful method used by wildlife managers to improve general well-being is the provision of environmental enrichment, which is the practice of providing animals under managed care with environmen...

and Implications The objective of this study was to evaluate the use of flavored ropes as environmental enrichment for individually housed gilts. Twelve crossbred gilts were observed using a randomized crossover design so that gilts were tested with ropes soaked in two of the four treatments: water, salt water, sugar water, and apple juice. Oral/nasal contacts did not differ between rope treatm...