Animal Updates | Birds | Mammals | Enrichment
Monday, December 09, 2013
Delivering Holiday Treats to the Animals | Dominique 
_200_140_80auto_c1_c_c_0_0_1.jpg)
Check out the enrichment items and treats our animals got during this year’s Holiday Treats Festival! Both animals and humans had so much fun!
Animal Updates | Enrichment
Tuesday, November 26, 2013
Preparing for Holiday Treats! | Dominique
What does it take to prepare holiday treats for all of the animals in the Aquarium?
Animal Updates | Birds | Enrichment
Tuesday, November 12, 2013
Food Treats for Lorikeets! | Dominique
What I wouldn’t do for a nice cool smoothie on a warm day… I think sometimes our Lorikeets feel the same way! Giving food to animals can be a great form of enrichment. Food is an excellent motivator and presenting it in a new or unique way can elicit foraging behaviors and even encourage problem solving strategies.
Animal Updates | Birds | Enrichment
Tuesday, October 29, 2013
A Pinata for the Birds | Dominique
Birds are smart. And they like to chew… a lot. This can make creating enrichment items for them quite challenging. Staccie, one of my fellow enrichment volunteers, created a stimulating piñata as an enrichment item for one of our toughest “clients”—Lola the Sulfur-Crested Cockatoo.
Animal Updates | Invertebrates | Arts | Enrichment | Volunteering
Tuesday, October 15, 2013
The “Finger”-Painting Octopus | Dominique
Part 2
Part 2 of my adventures in building an enrichment object that would allow our giant Pacific octopus, Gunda, to paint.
Animal Updates | Invertebrates | Arts | Enrichment
Tuesday, October 08, 2013
The “Finger”-Painting Octopus | Dominique
Part 1
Many of you have seen the seals and sea lions painting as an enrichment activity. Some zoos and aquariums even have elephants, giraffes and rhinos paint. If these smart mammals can do it, why can’t our octopus, the smartest invertebrate at the Aquarium? We decided to give our giant Pacific octopus, Gunda, the chance to try.
Enrichment | Volunteering
Tuesday, October 01, 2013
Introducing Dominique | Dominique
Enrichment Volunteer
I’m sure many of you, over your visits to the Aquarium, have noticed chew- toys in the otter exhibit, lorikeets picking at carved pumpkins or melons, discarded parts from a popular, potato-faced children’s toy outside the octopus’s cave, and the sea lions hopping on and jumping off floating rafts in their exhibit. These are all types of animal enrichment.
