Benefits of environmental enrichment in animal welfare: A literary review.

Abstract

With the increase of popular concern regarding the welfare of animals in captivity , environmental enrichment is a crucial tool for environment adaptation and maintenance of animals out of their natural habitat . Such a procedure aims to promote habitat characteristics to animals in captivity so that they can express a natural behavior of their own species , remain less time in idleness and to reduce or extinguish stereotypical behaviors and stress . This way , the objective of this current research was to elaborate a bibliographic review of animal welfare and environmental enrichment , and also of physiological and behavioral animal stress .