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Learning Adaptation in Caged and Enriched Environments

In May 2004, a study of learning behavior with captive Asiatic black bears (U. thibetanus) was initiated at a Department of National Parks facility in Thailand’s Mae Hong Son province. The results obtained thus far suggest that changing the conditions of confinement from barren concrete cages to naturalistic outdoor enclosures significantly improved the bears’ performance on a discriminative learning task. Furthermore, no correlation was found between exhibitions of stereotypy and a bear’s performance on the learning task.

Criswell, A. and J. Fuller. 2006. Learning adaptation in caged and enriched environments: there’s nothing like a change of scenery. International Bear News (in press).

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