Cognitive Enrichment Intervention for Captive Orcas
The goal of the present proposal was to design a cognitive enrichment program to reduce stereotypy and physiological signs of stress in captive orcas (Orcinus orca). This intervention consists of an object discrimination and retrieval task, and was designed to simulate orcas’ behavioral need of hunt...
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ftbardcollege:oai:digitalcommons.bard.edu:senproj_s2015-1221 2023-05-15T17:53:38+02:00 Cognitive Enrichment Intervention for Captive Orcas Copeland, Eve 2015-01-01T08:00:00Z application/pdf https://digitalcommons.bard.edu/senproj_s2015/128 https://digitalcommons.bard.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1221&context=senproj_s2015 unknown Bard Digital Commons https://digitalcommons.bard.edu/senproj_s2015/128 https://digitalcommons.bard.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1221&context=senproj_s2015 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/ CC-BY-NC-ND Senior Projects Spring 2015 Psychology text 2015 ftbardcollege 2022-06-26T10:12:00Z The goal of the present proposal was to design a cognitive enrichment program to reduce stereotypy and physiological signs of stress in captive orcas (Orcinus orca). This intervention consists of an object discrimination and retrieval task, and was designed to simulate orcas’ behavioral need of hunting. Seaworld’s three parks were used as locations for each of the group conditions: the Intervention Group, the Increased Training Group, and the Control Group. The hypothesized results demonstrate that the Intervention Group will show the smallest amount of stereotypic behavior at each interval of the experiment and that stereotypic behavior has a strong, positive correlation with blood serum cortisol levels, a physiological measure of stress. Text Orca Orcinus orca Bard College: Bard Digital Commons |
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The goal of the present proposal was to design a cognitive enrichment program to reduce stereotypy and physiological signs of stress in captive orcas (Orcinus orca). This intervention consists of an object discrimination and retrieval task, and was designed to simulate orcas’ behavioral need of hunting. Seaworld’s three parks were used as locations for each of the group conditions: the Intervention Group, the Increased Training Group, and the Control Group. The hypothesized results demonstrate that the Intervention Group will show the smallest amount of stereotypic behavior at each interval of the experiment and that stereotypic behavior has a strong, positive correlation with blood serum cortisol levels, a physiological measure of stress. |
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