Magazines/books/newspaper

Dry food items can be hidden in the pages or, the

Enrichment Area For Macaques magazine can be offered (with staples removed) for the
macaques to play with and destroy.

Here is a short description of an enrichment area for macaques. The enrichment area should be near the food
room so that daily feeding can incorporate enrichment. There are many categories of enrichment with some Novel
requiring food and others not. Macaques should receive at least 3 a day from different categories

Bamboo Plastic Bottles

Plastic bottles flled with fruits, water, seeds or frozen
Bamboo for Seeds Bamboo feeder Bamboo with slider
can be given. The bottle should be removed if it looks
A bamboo section A bamboo section A bamboo section has
like the macaque will consume the plastic.
with 2 small holes with a hole left in the a single hole in it. A
drilled in. top. larger piece of bamboo
Dry food such as dog Any food can be put which can be lifted but
kibble or seeds put inside and then the not removed is then
inside and macaques top is plugged with placed over the hole so Old brush heads
must try to organic material such the macaque must lift Seeds can be hidden in old brush heads or, they can be attached for
manipulate them out as a banana leaf. it to access food. macaques to play with and scratch against.
of the holes.
Old children toys
As novel items that promote
Bamboo fne mesh Many interest and play there are a
A bamboo section has Combinations range of children's toys, rattles
the front cut out and There are lots of or other objects which the
replaced with mesh. variations with macaques would play with.
Food is then placed in bamboo that can be
the top and the tried. Here leaves are
macaques must pick at put through the whole
it. This should be hung piece of bamboo with
up to prevent the holes for the Anything that can be made
macaques pouring the macaques to pull it from bamboo could also be Fabric
food out of the top. out. made from PVC pipe Old t-shirts, hessian sacks or towels can be given for animals to
play with. If they become too frayed they could become a
Wood
strangle risk and so animals need to be monitored. Infant
Fake bee hive macaques are particularly partial to fabrics.
Log with treats
Cut a log into sections
Drilling holes in a log of
and drill holes in, some
creating slits like those
right through and
pictured are another way food Other novel items
others half way. Do
can be offered to macaques. There are a range of novel items not covered here. Staples,
this to several of the
glues and choking hazards should be avoided but aside from
sections and put a rope
that many objects can be tried as long as macaques are
through. Food can be
observed that they use items safely
hid in the sections.

Cardboard/Toilet rolls
Foraging bamboo As shown in the picture there are a
Small bamboo sections are put range of foraging opportunities which
within a frame. Different can be made from cardboard.
foods can be put down them Toilet roll tubes can have food placed
for the macaques to get out. inside and be folded to contain it.
Things like peanut butter can
be tried and the macaques Even paper or old boxes with nothing
offered sticks to see if they fsh in can provide entertainment to
it out. macaques.

Enrichment Area For Macaques
Forage
Forage boxes/tubs/sacks
There are a range of natural materials
which can be put in boxes along with
food that encourage foraging and
group foraging. Natural materials such
as;
Leaves
Twigs
Rocks
Saw dust
Straw
Etc.
Mesh Cube
The mesh cube works exactly the same
as the bamboo fne mesh. It restricts
the animals access to food to slow the
macaque feeding down and promote a
feeding activity budget closer to that of
wild macaques.
Man made
Kongs
Kongs are robust rubber feeding devices. There are a range of ways
to use them. Most simply just jamming food in them. Paste like jam
or peanut butter can be smeared inside to create more of a challenge.
Finally putting the kong in water with fruit inside creates a frozen
kong.
Mirrors
Mirrors or mirrored balls
Macaques are self aware and enjoy
looking at themselves. There are
many ways of providing a mirror
whether inside the cage like the
motorbike mirror or outside.
Water
Water in tubs
Placing a large tub in the
cage so the macaques can
bathe. Fruit can be frozen
with a stone in to sink it to
the bottom of the water
particularly for long tailed
macaques.
Social
Social Enrichment
Macaques as we know are social species. Putting
isolation cages next to each other would allow
macaques to groom without managing to do great
harm to each other. Cages could be kept at a
distance so arms cannot reach the mouth of the
other macaque to prevent injury from biting. The
cages need only be together for 20 minutes a day,
Natural
A stick
Macaques will process sticks by removing
insects, removing bark, etc. And a range of
other ways that are not obvious to us.
Providing and renewing sticks is simple and
enriching.
Rocks and tool use
It is possible to set up challenges and
observe if the macaques can work it
out. One good test which mimics
what some macaques do in the wild is Leaves and browse
to provide rocks and nuts that need Providing natural browse has nutritional
cracking. benefts to macaques and they often spend
time processing them although not when
A similar version of this is providing preferred food is available.
food foating in a tub where only part
of the water is in reach. Then
provide the macaques with a stick to Banana Tree
All parts of banana
see if they will use the stick to reach
them. trees can be use. The
trunk can have
sunfower seeds
stuffed in them for
extra enrichment and
nutrition.
Banana trees can be
cut into parts to
Grass Basket share amongst many
Creating a basket and then stuffng
macaques.
it with grasses and leaves means
the macaques can pull them apart.