{"title":"Enrichment at Home and in the Wild: Comparing Enrichment in Black-Footed Cats and Domestic Cats","authors":"Skylar Gomez","doi":"10.55736/iaabcfj19.8","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.55736/iaabcfj19.8","url":null,"abstract":"Environmental enrichment provides captive animals with stimuli needed to participate in species-typical behavior and increases the amount of time an animal spends in goal-directed behavior. It is often used in zoos to decrease the occurrences of stereotypical behaviors. This article explores responses to enrichment in two closely related species – the black-footed cat (Felis nigripes) and the domestic cat (Felis catus) – through video footage and analysis of each species’ interaction with three enrichment treatments","PeriodicalId":259952,"journal":{"name":"The IAABC Foundation Journal","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128528202","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"COVID-sniffing Dogs One Year Later: New Studies Show Promise","authors":"Kayla Fratt","doi":"10.55736/iaabcfj23.4","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.55736/iaabcfj23.4","url":null,"abstract":"The canine nose is the most sophisticated tool we have for detecting odors in real-life environments. As soon as the pandemic hit, researchers started looking at whether dogs could be trained to detect if a person is infected with the COVID-19 virus. One year after these initial studies, where are we at with the science and implementation now? This article discusses some recent research that suggests dogs could become a valuable assistance in our continuing fight against the coronavirus.","PeriodicalId":259952,"journal":{"name":"The IAABC Foundation Journal","volume":"105 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116801286","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}