Orangutan Melur with enrichment at Auckland Zoo.

Enrichment is used in zoos as a way of enhancing the environment an animal lives in. It's anything we do here at Auckland Zoo to encourage and stimulate natural behaviours in our animals.

In the wild, orangutans often use tools, like sticks, to get food, like retrieving particular parts of a fruit, or digging insects out from a log or rock. This enrichment item encourages tool use that would occur naturally in the wild.

For more information on the enrichment we do here at Auckland Zoo, visit our website: http://www.aucklandzoo.co.nz/explore-the-zoo/enrichment.aspx

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