Serval Enrichment Activities
Environmental
- Scattered logs, climbing limbs and branches
- Patches of tall grass and vegetation
- Platforms
- Splash pool
- Sandbox
- Moving furniture and objects in and out of enclosure
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Food
- Dead birds with feathers
- Dead day-old chicks
- Dead whole rabbits
- Meat with fur
- Large bones
- Frozen fish (thawed first)
- Live fish or frogs in splash pool
- Feeding meat on platform
- Feeding meat in long plastic tube to encourage grabbing
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Novel and Sensory
- Soft and rope toys, rubber snake
- Gourds, apples, balls
- Cardboard boxes
- Guinea fowl wing suspended from top of enclosure
- Plastic bottles, balls and toys balls in splash pool
- Blowing bubbles into splash pool
- Playing with water from hosepipe
- Papier-mâché ball with dry cat food or piece of thawed fish inside
- Branches over empty splash pool
- Catnip
- Snake skins
- Fish gel
- Switching enclosures with other animals
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Social
- Interaction with other animals through fence
- Interaction with staff and volunteers
- Interaction with the public
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Exercise
- Walks on harness and lead
- Chasing plastic bottle or guinea fowl wing attached to whip
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