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The goal, explains Erin Frick, Ph.D.<\/a>, was to improve the lives of animals in human-care environments.<\/h3>\n[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row type=”full_width_content” full_screen_row_position=”middle” column_margin=”default” column_direction=”default” column_direction_tablet=”default” column_direction_phone=”default” scene_position=”center” top_padding=”32″ bottom_padding=”32″ text_color=”dark” text_align=”left” row_border_radius=”none” row_border_radius_applies=”bg” overflow=”visible” advanced_gradient_angle=”0″ overlay_strength=”0.3″ gradient_direction=”left_to_right” shape_divider_position=”bottom” bg_image_animation=”none” shape_type=”” gradient_type=”default”][vc_column column_padding=”no-extra-padding” column_padding_tablet=”inherit” column_padding_phone=”inherit” column_padding_position=”right” column_element_direction_desktop=”default” column_element_spacing=”default” desktop_text_alignment=”default” tablet_text_alignment=”default” phone_text_alignment=”default” background_color_opacity=”1″ background_hover_color_opacity=”1″ column_backdrop_filter=”none” column_shadow=”none” column_border_radius=”none” column_link_target=”_self” column_position=”default” gradient_direction=”left_to_right” overlay_strength=”0.3″ width=”1\/1″ tablet_width_inherit=”default” animation_type=”default” bg_image_animation=”none” border_type=”simple” column_border_width=”none” column_border_style=”solid” column_padding_type=”default” gradient_type=”default”][vc_column_text]That was at the center of Frick\u2019s Eckerd College Winter Term course called Animal Enrichment. An assistant professor of animal studies<\/a>, Frick describes enrichment as \u201csomething that is added to an animal\u2019s environment or routine with the intent to increase the well-being of that animal. Different types of enrichment can be given to encourage natural behaviors such as hunting, foraging and play. Enrichment also can increase fitness and social behavior, encourage bonding, and provide physical or mental stimulation.\u201d<\/p>\n

But the process is nowhere near as simple as tossing a ball or a chunk of meat into a cage.<\/p>\n

Frick\u2019s students spent the first part of the monthlong course in January doing background research and establishing goals for the animals. \u201cAnd we talked with people at the facilities where the animals live to get their input,\u201d she adds. \u201cThen the students took those ideas and brought them to life.\u201d[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row type=”full_width_content” full_screen_row_position=”middle” column_margin=”default” column_direction=”default” column_direction_tablet=”default” column_direction_phone=”default” scene_position=”center” top_padding=”48″ bottom_padding=”32″ text_color=”dark” text_align=”left” row_border_radius=”none” row_border_radius_applies=”bg” overflow=”visible” advanced_gradient_angle=”0″ overlay_strength=”0.3″ gradient_direction=”left_to_right” shape_divider_position=”bottom” bg_image_animation=”none” shape_type=”” gradient_type=”default”][vc_column column_padding=”no-extra-padding” column_padding_tablet=”inherit” column_padding_phone=”inherit” column_padding_position=”right” column_element_direction_desktop=”default” column_element_spacing=”default” desktop_text_alignment=”default” tablet_text_alignment=”default” phone_text_alignment=”default” background_color_opacity=”1″ background_hover_color_opacity=”1″ column_backdrop_filter=”none” column_shadow=”none” column_border_radius=”none” column_link_target=”_self” column_position=”default” gradient_direction=”left_to_right” overlay_strength=”0.3″ width=”1\/1″ tablet_width_inherit=”default” animation_type=”default” bg_image_animation=”none” border_type=”simple” column_border_width=”none” column_border_style=”solid” column_padding_type=”default” gradient_type=”default”][image_with_animation image_url=”16015″ image_size=”full” animation_type=”entrance” animation=”Fade In” animation_easing=”default” animation_movement_type=”transform_y” hover_animation=”none” alignment=”” img_link_large=”yes” border_radius=”none” box_shadow=”none” image_loading=”skip-lazy-load” max_width=”100%” max_width_mobile=”default”][divider line_type=”No Line” custom_height=”16″][vc_column_text]Junior Alex Dieux (left) introduces a puzzle feeder to a wolf hybrid. Photos and video by Penh Alicandro ’22<\/em>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row type=”full_width_content” full_screen_row_position=”middle” column_margin=”default” column_direction=”default” column_direction_tablet=”default” column_direction_phone=”default” scene_position=”center” top_padding=”32″ text_color=”dark” text_align=”left” row_border_radius=”none” row_border_radius_applies=”bg” overflow=”visible” advanced_gradient_angle=”0″ overlay_strength=”0.3″ gradient_direction=”left_to_right” shape_divider_position=”bottom” bg_image_animation=”none” shape_type=”” gradient_type=”default”][vc_column column_padding=”no-extra-padding” column_padding_tablet=”inherit” column_padding_phone=”inherit” column_padding_position=”right” column_element_direction_desktop=”default” column_element_spacing=”default” desktop_text_alignment=”default” tablet_text_alignment=”default” phone_text_alignment=”default” background_color_opacity=”1″ background_hover_color_opacity=”1″ column_backdrop_filter=”none” column_shadow=”none” column_border_radius=”none” column_link_target=”_self” column_position=”default” gradient_direction=”left_to_right” overlay_strength=”0.3″ width=”1\/1″ tablet_width_inherit=”default” animation_type=”default” bg_image_animation=”none” border_type=”simple” column_border_width=”none” column_border_style=”solid” column_padding_type=”default” gradient_type=”default”][vc_column_text]They did that inside the EC MakerSpace<\/a>\u2014a club workshop on Eckerd\u2019s campus devoted to building, engineering and creating. The students attached a large brush to the ceiling of a box, so a tortoise could rub its shell against it. They drilled holes in PVC pipes to make puzzle feeders for wolves and other animals. They constructed a 5-foot paper-mache tree and a similar-sized paper-mache zebra named Reginald. Both would have food for the animals hidden inside. \u201cWays to present food that are a bit of a challenge for cognitive engagement,\u201d Frick explains.<\/p>\n

On a recent morning at the MakerSpace, Eckerd College Physics<\/a> Shop Supervisor Paul Fratiello along with Academy of Senior Professionals at Eckerd College members Dave Duane and Tom Handcock moved from one workstation to the next offering help to students cutting and drilling holes in logs and pipes. Handcock is a retired businessman who has been an ASPEC member for 18 years. Like Fratiello and Duane, he knows his way around a workshop.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe told Professor Frick we\u2019d be delighted to help her class,\u201d Handcock says. \u201cAnd when she told us there would be 24 students, we built four more worktables in the Makerspace. Most kids don\u2019t know how to use heavy shop equipment, so we show them and then back off. There\u2019s nothing more exciting than teaching somebody how to do something, and then seeing them doing it even better than you did it,\u201d he adds with a chuckle.<\/p>\n

The idea of using enrichment, Frick explains, isn\u2019t new.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row type=”full_width_content” full_screen_row_position=”middle” column_margin=”default” column_direction=”default” column_direction_tablet=”default” column_direction_phone=”default” scene_position=”center” top_padding=”32″ text_color=”dark” text_align=”left” row_border_radius=”none” row_border_radius_applies=”bg” overflow=”visible” advanced_gradient_angle=”0″ overlay_strength=”0.3″ gradient_direction=”left_to_right” shape_divider_position=”bottom” bg_image_animation=”none” shape_type=”” gradient_type=”default”][vc_column column_padding=”padding-2-percent” column_padding_tablet=”inherit” column_padding_phone=”inherit” column_padding_position=”all” column_element_direction_desktop=”default” column_element_spacing=”default” desktop_text_alignment=”default” tablet_text_alignment=”default” phone_text_alignment=”default” background_color_opacity=”1″ background_hover_color_opacity=”1″ column_backdrop_filter=”none” column_shadow=”none” column_border_radius=”none” column_link_target=”_self” column_position=”default” el_class=”lg_text” gradient_direction=”left_to_right” overlay_strength=”0.3″ width=”1\/1″ tablet_width_inherit=”default” animation_type=”default” bg_image_animation=”none” border_type=”simple” column_border_width=”none” column_border_style=”solid” column_padding_type=”default” gradient_type=”default”][vc_column_text]\u201cBut it is a key and vital part of the role of modern zoo and animal management. Our goal is to provide additional support. The ultimate goal is to keep the animals\u2019 environment dynamic and engaging, and a class like this lets the students have more of an in-depth picture of the whole process. At the end, they get to see the animals engage with what they made.\u201d<\/span>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row type=”full_width_content” full_screen_row_position=”middle” column_margin=”default” column_direction=”default” column_direction_tablet=”default” column_direction_phone=”default” scene_position=”center” top_padding=”32″ bottom_padding=”32″ text_color=”dark” text_align=”left” row_border_radius=”none” row_border_radius_applies=”bg” overflow=”visible” advanced_gradient_angle=”0″ overlay_strength=”0.3″ gradient_direction=”left_to_right” shape_divider_position=”bottom” bg_image_animation=”none” shape_type=”” gradient_type=”default”][vc_column column_padding=”padding-2-percent” column_padding_tablet=”inherit” column_padding_phone=”inherit” column_padding_position=”right” column_element_direction_desktop=”default” column_element_spacing=”default” desktop_text_alignment=”default” tablet_text_alignment=”default” phone_text_alignment=”default” background_color_opacity=”1″ background_hover_color_opacity=”1″ column_backdrop_filter=”none” column_shadow=”none” column_border_radius=”none” column_link_target=”_self” column_position=”default” gradient_direction=”left_to_right” overlay_strength=”0.3″ width=”2\/3″ tablet_width_inherit=”default” animation_type=”default” bg_image_animation=”none” border_type=”simple” column_border_width=”none” column_border_style=”solid” column_padding_type=”default” gradient_type=”default”][vc_column_text]And so they did. On Jan. 26, the final day of Winter Term, Frick, her students, Reginald, the tree and dozens of other objects made the 45-minute trip to Elmira\u2019s Wildlife Sanctuary<\/a> in Wimauma. A nonprofit facility staffed entirely by volunteers, the sanctuary is a forever home to dozens of exotic animals including several tigers, a leopard, tropical birds, a grizzly bear and several wolf hybrids\u2014wolves that have been bred with dogs.<\/p>\n

The first stop was at the wolf enclosure, where students placed puzzle feeders inside the fence. Ivy Sanborn, a senior animal studies student from Bar Harbor, Maine, took a seat on a bench near the back. A moment later, a wolf jumped up to sit beside her and started licking her face. \u201cThe wolf initiated that interaction,\u201d Ivy says later, \u201cwhich made it much more special for me. I wanted to make sure I wasn\u2019t going to bother the wolves or invade their privacy. But I never expected to be in there petting them.\u201d<\/p>\n

At another enclosure, Robin Greenwood, Elmira\u2019s founder and CEO, set up Reginald, the paper-mache zebra, with chicken parts inside. The instant Greenwood left and locked the gate, Lexi and Cort, a pair of adult Bengal tigers, rocketed from their holding area, headed straight for the zebra and ripped into it. \u201cReginald,\u201d Greenwood said with a grin, \u201cthis is what you were made for.\u201d[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][vc_column column_padding=”no-extra-padding” column_padding_tablet=”inherit” column_padding_phone=”inherit” column_padding_position=”all” top_margin_tablet=”32″ column_element_direction_desktop=”default” column_element_spacing=”default” desktop_text_alignment=”default” tablet_text_alignment=”default” phone_text_alignment=”default” background_color_opacity=”1″ background_hover_color_opacity=”1″ column_backdrop_filter=”none” column_shadow=”none” column_border_radius=”none” column_link_target=”_self” column_position=”default” gradient_direction=”left_to_right” overlay_strength=”0.3″ width=”1\/3″ tablet_width_inherit=”default” animation_type=”default” bg_image_animation=”none” 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It\u2019s hard for us to put in that much effort on a day-to-day basis, but when someone else can come out and help us \u2026 it all adds to the quality of life for the animals.\u201d<\/p>\n

The last stop was Stanley\u2019s compound. A 12-year-old grizzly bear, Stanley was placed in a holding enclosure while volunteers set up the paper-mache tree now loaded with apples. When released, Stanley ambled over to the tree, shoved it to the ground and almost gently tore it limb from limb before gobbling up the apples.<\/p>\n

Watching all this was Emma Lewis, a senior animal studies and environmental studie<\/a>s student from Roseville, California. She had helped build the tree. \u201cEverything we did was extremely well thought out,\u201d she says. \u201cDr. Frick is so passionate about her work, and that passion rubs off on us. Enrichment is one of the best ways to improve an animal\u2019s welfare, so that their lives aren\u2019t the same thing over and over again every day.\u201d<\/p>\n

The students say it\u2019s not just the animals that benefit. \u201cThis class gave me this new sense of purpose for what I\u2019m going to do after I graduate,\u201d says Ivy. \u201cIt was one of the best classes I\u2019ve ever taken at Eckerd. I never had so much hands-on time in the classroom. And I was challenged in a way I hadn\u2019t been before.\u201d[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row type=”full_width_content” full_screen_row_position=”middle” column_margin=”default” column_direction=”default” column_direction_tablet=”default” column_direction_phone=”default” scene_position=”center” top_padding=”48″ bottom_padding=”32″ text_color=”dark” text_align=”left” row_border_radius=”none” row_border_radius_applies=”bg” overflow=”visible” advanced_gradient_angle=”0″ overlay_strength=”0.3″ gradient_direction=”left_to_right” shape_divider_position=”bottom” bg_image_animation=”none” shape_type=”” gradient_type=”default”][vc_column column_padding=”no-extra-padding” column_padding_tablet=”inherit” column_padding_phone=”inherit” column_padding_position=”right” column_element_direction_desktop=”default” column_element_spacing=”default” desktop_text_alignment=”default” tablet_text_alignment=”default” phone_text_alignment=”default” background_color_opacity=”1″ background_hover_color_opacity=”1″ column_backdrop_filter=”none” column_shadow=”none” column_border_radius=”none” column_link_target=”_self” column_position=”default” gradient_direction=”left_to_right” overlay_strength=”0.3″ width=”1\/1″ tablet_width_inherit=”default” animation_type=”default” bg_image_animation=”none” border_type=”simple” column_border_width=”none” column_border_style=”solid” column_padding_type=”default” gradient_type=”default”][image_with_animation image_url=”16010″ image_size=”full” animation_type=”entrance” animation=”None” animation_movement_type=”transform_y” hover_animation=”none” alignment=”” img_link_large=”yes” border_radius=”none” box_shadow=”none” image_loading=”default” max_width=”100%” max_width_mobile=”default”][divider line_type=”No Line” custom_height=”16″][vc_column_text]Senior Emma Lewis gets a close look at one of the Bengal tigers.<\/em>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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