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Animal welfare
Assessing animal welfare is a very important aspect of animal management and is even more so with an animal as intelligent and complex as a great ape.
Regular assessments of your great apes both individually and as a group can help detect changes in welfare. Monitoring welfare across an organisation or zoo is also extremely beneficial and may highlight areas of change needed.
Using the five domains model of animal welfare we can ensure the animals in our care are provided with the best nutrition, environment, veterinary care, opportunities for natural behaviours and overall positive mental state.
Great Ape Consultancy can advise on assessing practices and current management to improve and monitor welfare changes. Remember, an animal’s physiological and psychological health can change regularly, throughout the day or from one day to the next, during different seasons and throughout progressing life stages and all are important to assess and manage to encourage positive welfare change.
Improving welfare through training
When an adult male chimpanzee sustained a large wound to his outer thigh severe enough to warrant immediate veterinary intervention we used positive reinforcement training to provide ongoing care for 6 months and the wound had healed completely
- Lorraine Miller
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