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Wellington Zoo: Behavioural Development for Zoo Wild Dogs
Old 26-03-2005
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Behavioural Development for Zoo Wild Dogs

16 February 2005

Behavioural Development for Zoo Wild Dogs

Seven African Wild Dogs are about to experience a new form of play when they have access to their recently enhanced enclosure at Wellington Zoo this Thursday at 10:30am following the installation of a water feature in the enclosure.

Designed by Wellington Zoo Horticultural team, Tony Kelly and Topi Wirihana, the water feature resembles a naturalistic pond that the dogs are likely to use for playing and cooling off.

“The topography of the land meant that constructing the feature was quite a difficult job. That area of the enclosure is solid rock, so we had to hand dig a hole with pick axes and shovels, then it took us a week to construct the actual feature”.

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.... all the zoo needs to do now would be to train the cheetahs to urinate at the fence ( the cheetahs are next to the African hunting dogs ) Then the staff wont have to bother about enrichment -- the cheetahs can do it for them
 

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