Current Elephant Enrichment in different zoo’s in the world

Built-in Pool for exercise, cooling, self maintenance

Suspended Boomer Ball & tires for exploration and
manipulation
Loose Boomer Balls for manipulation and exercise
Boomer Ball with Straps (ball food dispenser wrapped in fire
hose with holes)
Large Tractor Tire
6 ft. Hay Bag to increase foraging time (woven fire hose
bolted and welded together)
Spin Feeder to increase foraging time (barrel food dispenser
with holes)
Culvert tube to hide food in (large tube with variable hole
sizes)
o Makes foraging a creative challenge
Popscicles
o Fruit (apples/oranges/bananas/melons/grapes) frozen in a
trash barrel-sized ice block
Natural items (grown/collected on zoo grounds)
o Large browse branches
Ficus
Mulberry
Chinese Elm
Kaffir Plum
Bamboo stalks
Sugar Cane
o Deadfall (tree logs)
o Self-sustaining banana grove (grown for elephants only)
Natural items (variable/seasonal)
o Cornstalks
o Watermelon
o Pineapple
o Giant pumpkins/other gourds
o Christmas trees
(*) – Limited by the size of the current exhibit