Nutrition enrichment can cover a number of different enrichment types with some of the options already listed under tactile enrichment...

Sensory enrichment - Taste The sense of taste is very important to animals. Tigers are stimulated by offering different tasting food...

Sensory enrichment - visual When it comes to visual enrichment, similar to auditory, it can be both positive and negative. The key here...

Sensory enrichment - auditory Before we begin, it’s important to point out that, while auditory enrichment can be a positive thing, it...

Sensory enrichment - tactile In order to create a tactile environment, there are a number of other enrichment devices (on top of those...

Sensory enrichment - tactile Similar to house cats, tigers need to scratch to maintain their claws. Though tigers have sheaths (the skin...

Sensory enrichment - olfactory Tigers have a good sense of smell, which is often used to determine who has been present in their...

Enclosure size Wild tigers are known for travelling vast distances in search of territory, mates, water and prey [1]. The distances...

Tigers in captivity need to have access to a range of different substrates within the enclosure in order to provide as natural an...

Tigers, like other cats, want to be able to hide when they feel uncomfortable or when they simply need space from each other [1]. In a...

Tigers may not be known for climbing trees or sitting up in branches like leopards, but that doesn’t mean they don’t like being high up....

Tigers may be from the cat family, but they’re one of the few cats (both big and small) that actually like the water – other water-loving...

Enrichment, also referred to as environmental or behavioural enrichment, is the provision of external stimuli with the aim to produce...

What a strange year it has been! 2020 has been remarkably hard all round and while people have suffered, animals have too. With countries...

The holidays are coming! And what better way to celebrate than by grabbing some meaningful presents that will help give captive tigers a...

In September we visited Samutprakan Crocodile Farm and Zoo on the outskirts of Bangkok. This facility is primarily a crocodile farm,...

There are many beliefs about what goes on in tourist-tiger interactions. However, many of these beliefs are wrong. This World Animal Day,...

To mark World Animal Day on 4th October, we’re teaming up with Roxi the Rescue Dog!! Roxi brings hugely important welfare messages to the...

Tiger and other wildlife selfies are an on-going issue in tourist venues around the world. With facilities’ a commercial goals often at...

Global Tiger Day is a time to raise awareness for tigers. We take this time to think about captive tiger welfare in Thailand.