Monday

August 1, 2005

OPENING SESSION & KEYNOTE ADDRESS
WELCOMING REMARKS
Richard Lattis, Senior Vice President and General Director / Living Institutions
Don Moore, Director / Prospect Park Zoo; Co-chair WCS Animal Enrichment Program

KEYNOTE ADDRESS
Eugene Linden, "Seeing is Believing"

PLENARY ADDRESS
Jill Mellen (as presented by Joseph Barber), "Unifying the Art and Science of Animal Enrichment"

SESSION 1
SYMPOSIUM
Providing Animals with Choice and Control: Approaches and Issues
(Diana Reiss* & Colleen McCann - *New York Aquarium, Columbia University)

• Keeping birds in bushes, not in hands: the use of cognitive tasks as individually paced enrichment (Joseph Barber* & Christopher Kuhar - *Prospect Park Zoo)
• Implications of context-dependent decision-making for the use of choice tests in animal welfare research (Melissa Bateson - University of Newcastle upon Tyne)
• The role of cognitive research in avian enrichment. Or, the role of enrichment in avian cognitive research (Patricia Cole - Prospect Park Zoo)
• The effect of choice on primate well-being (Elizabeth Metzger & Colleen McCann - Bronx Zoo)
• Enriching animals while enriching science: providing choice and control to dolphins
  (Diana Reiss - New York Aquarium, Columbia University)

CONTRIBUTED PAPERS
How motivational studies in humans could provide new insights to animal enrichment science (Becca Franks* & Tory Higgins – *Columbia University)

SESSION 2
CONTRIBUTED PAPERS continued...

• Predictability and welfare of captive animals
  (Hannah Buchanan-Smith*, Lois Bassett & Inbal Badihi - *Univeristy of Stirling)
• Captive birds and contrafreeloading; the choice to work
  (Lynne Gilbert-Norton* & Phil Gee – *Utah State University)
• A review of the evaluation of environmental enrichment in zoos
  (Katherine Roberts - Zoo New England)
• Foraging behaviour of the African harrier hawk (Polyboroides typus) before, during and after foraging enrichment
  (Robynn Ingle-Moller* & Duncan Shirley - National Zoological Gardens, SA)
• Assessing the value of foraging enrichment devices: a critical step in the optimization of enrichment programs
  (Amanda Wenzel*, Susan Lambeth & Steven Schapiro - *University of Texas)
• The effect of environmental enrichment on the behavioral repertoire of captive blue duikers (Sarah Ksiazek - University of Idaho)
• Environmental and behavioural enrichment for captive apes
  (Cristiane Pizzutto*, M. Geronymo, P. Prist, S. Corrêa, A. Beresca, C. Oliveira, M. Guimarães, C. Pessutti, A. Nunes - *São Paulo University)
• Increasing foraging time in lined seahorses (Hippocampus erectus) by using feeding enrichment with slow release (frozen) cubes of mysis shrimp
  (Erin Hale*, Diane Chepko-Sade & Nancy Porter - *SUNY Oswego)

SESSION 3
CONTRIBUTED PAPERS

• The enrichment potential of zoo visitors
  (Alexandra Farrand* & Hannah Buchanan-Smith – *University of Stirling)
• The Bronx Zoo's Tiger Mountain: an exhibit as enrichment
  (Michelle Medina*, Kenneth Jones, Cathy Vitale & Phil Reiser – *Bronx Zoo)
• Naturalistic enrichment design: a little testing goes a long way
  (Greg Whittaker*, Margaret Whittaker, Jon Coe - *Moody Gardens)
• Bob the Builder vs. the big plastic pickle: a tale of normality, novelty and design
  (John Fraser – Wildlife Conservation Society)

DISCUSSION
Compromise: A Natural Solution to "Naturalistic" Enrichment
(Chris Breder & Rachel Cantrell – Disney’s Animal Kingdom)

PUBLIC EVENT
GUEST PRESENTATION – followed by book signing
Temple Grandin  "Animals in Translation: Understanding How Animals Think and Feel"