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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 in large natural enclosures, and aprogramme should be set up for any given bear enclosure.• Feeding enrichment shall be explored, such as changing the times offeeding, hiding food items, supplementary feeding (vegetables, fruits,browse, rawhide dog bones and live or fresh fish), finely chopped andscattered/hidden frozen blocks of ice or containers that offermanipulation.• Introduce manipulative objects or objects for exploration, e.g. trafficcones, “boomer” balls, heavy rubber buckets. Rotate these items dailyor periodically.What’s a polar bear doing in the tropics?98www.acres.org.sg
APPENDIX VIII: GUIDELINES FOR FEEDING TECHNIQUESWSPA• Food shall be provided at different times throughout the day, at leastthree meals per day, and on an adlib basis. Meal frequency shallincrease gradually for species that naturally adapt a seasonal variationin feeding motivation.• The animal’s main meal of the day shall be fed in the morning at afixed time and it shall not be fed indoors.• Feeding methods shall allow for extensive foraging, naturalmanipulation, and processing. Most foods shall be scattered or hiddenin the outdoor enclosure.• Polar bears benefit from feed that floats in water.• Clean fresh drinking water shall be available and accessible at alltimes for all individuals.TAG• Food should be presented so that manipulation, processing food itemsand extensive foraging will stimulate natural conditions. Meat shouldbe provided as whole animals or large carcass portions. For polarbears, food that floats should occasionally be scattered in the water.• Seasonal variations in feeding motivation should be taken into accountin feeding management.• Animals should be offered at least three meals in a day with most foodscattered in the outdoor enclosure.• Feeding enrichment should take into account that different specieshave different ways of foraging, i.e. utilise different food seekingskills.UFAW• Bears should receive their main meal early in the morning in order toreduce the animals’ stress level in anticipation of food.• In order to stimulate foraging behaviour, foods should be scatter fedor embedded in containers or blocks of ice two to three times a day atirregular intervals and with different contents.IBF• Scatter feeding at different times a day must be considered.What’s a polar bear doing in the tropics?99www.acres.org.sg
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