What's a Polar Bear Doing in the Tropics? - Animal Concerns ...
What's a Polar Bear Doing in the Tropics? - Animal Concerns ...
What's a Polar Bear Doing in the Tropics? - Animal Concerns ...
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• Environmental enrichment should be a priority on a daily basis. Thereshould be enough time, facilities and appropriate budgets forenrichment programmes.IBF• Enrichment is a necessity <strong>in</strong> large natural enclosures, and aprogramme should be set up for any given bear enclosure.• Feed<strong>in</strong>g enrichment shall be explored, such as chang<strong>in</strong>g <strong>the</strong> times offeed<strong>in</strong>g, hid<strong>in</strong>g food items, supplementary feed<strong>in</strong>g (vegetables, fruits,browse, rawhide dog bones and live or fresh fish), f<strong>in</strong>ely chopped andscattered/hidden frozen blocks of ice or conta<strong>in</strong>ers that offermanipulation.• Introduce manipulative objects or objects for exploration, e.g. trafficcones, “boomer” balls, heavy rubber buckets. Rotate <strong>the</strong>se items dailyor periodically.What’s a polar bear do<strong>in</strong>g <strong>in</strong> <strong>the</strong> tropics?98www.acres.org.sg