Food hiding and enrichment in captive Asian elephants

Applied Animal Behaviour Science

Volumn 56, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 77-82

  Wiedenmayer, Christoph ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b Surgeons of Columbia University ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Elephants; Environmental enrichment; Learning

Indexed keywords

ASIAN ELEPHANT; FOOD SEARCHING; FORAGING;

ELEPHAS MAXIMUS;

EID: 0032006330     PISSN: 01681591     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0168-1591(97)00091-9     Document Type: Article

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