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Enrichment of large cats
LIŠKOVÁ, Markéta
The environmental enrichment helps to improve the complexity of the enviroment of animals in captivity, supports comfort of the animals, stimulates the active behaviour and reduces the stereotypes behaviour which is often seen at the large felines in zoos. My work was done in Zoo Dvůr Králové. I have monitored 3 types of large felines {--} Amur tiger (Panthera tigris altaica), Persian leopard (Panthera pardus saxicolor) and African lion (Panthera leo). I wanted to compare some reactions of these subjects to 4 types of enrichment {--} a hung food or locked up in an other way, cardboard box with wood wool and some pair of rats, a plastic barel and some excrements of African elephant (Loxodonta africana) or sitatunga (Tragelaphus spekei gratus). The food enrichment has increased the spending time when they ate and moved. When we added the cardboard box into the paddock the animals behaved playfully, the animals moved more. The reaction to the plastic barel were different at every group of animals. The tigers increased their activity movement, the levharts were very playfully. At the lions it was a prime movement. The olfactor subject increased the time of spending when the animals behaved in other way and moved more.

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