Enclosure Enrichment at the International Wolf Center

Enclosure enrichment is a common practice in captive animal management. It provides stimulus to their sensory abilities reduces boredom and can be a good distraction if there is tension in the pack. These activities are commonly done in the summer months, and will be a featured program on Tuesdays and Thursdays at 1 pm at the International Wolf Center in Ely. Activities can include scents, food, vegetation, new rocks, enclosure improvements or human interaction. This YouTube video features the inclusion of some deer scents and a 2nd activity of hidden food items. This is the pups first enrichment with deeper snow, making the challenge of finding things more difficult. They followed the lead of the adults, and became very adept at locating items themselves. Denali even jumped to reach a beef stick that was out of range for Grizzer.

Category:

Pets & Animals

Tags:

• wolf
• wolves
• wolfs
• Aidan
• Denali
• Shadow
• Grizzer
• Malik
• Maya
• Captive Wolves
• Minnesota
• Ely Minnesota
• International Wolf Center
• captive wolf

[HERMITYNA]

It's a beautiful, wonderful very nice pack!!! I love wolves and this channel.

[MDthornton83]

Awesome video. Wolves are so awesome.

[fan1lotr]

Wonderful video! I love wolves and finding this channel was so special to me! Keep up the beautiful filming!

[misschatterteeth]

your videos are wonderful thank you so much for sharing.

[experiment900]

What a beautiful pack. It's really wonderful to see the pups wrestle and grow, and actually start to display a little dominance over one another. But I must ask, who's the second white wolf, apart from Shadow? I never see any captions about him/her.

[lebrow2]

Wonderful, wonderful! Hope all of you at the IWC have a wonderful Christmas...and that the wolves get a special holiday meal, too! Thanks for all you do.

[WhiteVV01F]

Once again excellent filming. And we have the IWC staff to thank for it. These are amazing video which we can learn a lot from. There's so much beautiful footage. I almost can't put my gratitude into words. Brilliant.

[discoverysgraywolf]

AMAZING!!

I cant get over how beautiful they are.

[skue]

As always, the highlight of my week...Watching the videos and reading the logs. Thank you Lori Schmidt and the staff at the IWC for posting the videos and educating us.

[Venduryn]

Yay! A new IWC video! I loved watching Aidan and Denali wrestle/groom in the beginning.