Beijing Zoo enriches environment to enliven animals before Olympics

You traveled all the way, queued to get a ticket and elbowed through the crowds, and finally, there are the pandas, lying still and asleep.

To better enliven the animals and satisfy its visitors, Beijing Zoo has recently launched a campaign to enrich the living environment in animal enclosures by making changes to structures, presenting novel objects and smells for them to investigate and explore and changing the ways of feeding.

The project was aimed at creating a more nature-like environment for the animals, according to the zoo.

“For example, we would play hide-and-seek with some animals at mealtime to stimulate them to explore for potential food and fun and to interact with their surroundings,” said Zhang Yizhuo, a zoo official in charge of the enrichment.

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