Tuesday

August 2, 2005

SESSION 4
CONTRIBUTED PAPERS

• Enrichment and training programs at the Smithsonian National Zoo: getting everyone to talk the same language (Jack Grisham - Smithsonian National Zoological Park)
• Enrichment for Australian mammal species: a review (Margaret Hawkins - Zoological Parks Board of New South Wales)
• The relationship between knowledge, attitude and the use of behavioral enrichment by animal care personnel at zoos (Tina Chang - Morehouse College)
• The many and potential factors in effective enrichment (Heidi Lyn*, Lauren Klein, Rebecca Franks & Diana Reiss - *Osborn Laboratories of Marine Sciences)
• Thinking outside of the cardboard box – taking enrichment to the next level (Deana Walz* & Dawn Neptune - *Utah's Hogle Zoo)
• A shelter enrichment program: are enriched animals better behaved? (Pamela Reid* & Katherine Miller - *ASPCA)
• Training sea turtles for husbandry and enrichment (Nicole Ethier* & Cheryl Balsamo - *New York Aquarium)
• Target training in barramundi fish, Lates calcarifer (Preston Foerder - National Aquarium in Baltimore)

SESSION 5
SYMPOSIUM
Examining and Addressing Abnormal Behavior (Gail Laule1, Margaret Whittaker1 & Mollie Bloomsmith2 - 1Active Environments; 2Yerkes Primate Center)

• Training as environmental enrichment: does training moderate abnormal behavior in nonhuman primates? (Mollie Bloomsmith - Yerkes Primate Center)
• The role of fear in abnormal behavior and animal welfare (Gail Laule - Active Environments)
• Applied problem solving to diminish abnormal behavior (Margaret Whittaker - Active Environments)
• Self-injurious and stereotypic behavior in macaques: the search for causes and treatments (Melinda Novak* & Jerrold Meyer - *New England Primate Research Center and University of Massachusetts at Amherst)

CONTRIBUTED PAPERS
Clinical management of self-directed behaviors in zoo animals (Vint Virga - Veterinary Healing Arts, Inc.)

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