Monkey Boards
Monkey Boards
Behaviors
Foraging, Chewing
Animals
Non-Human Primates
Type
Object Manipulation, Tactile, Food
Why They Love It
NHPs forage around 70% of the day. They will forage for long periods of time retrieving every singly seed or fruit and tearing the cardboard at the end!
Safety Concerns
One-time use, possible ingestion.
Recipe
Monkey Boards
This enrichment is all year round and allows NHPs to do what they do in the wild, forage! Place any seeds, marshmallows, craisins, and watch them enjoy!
Yield: 1
Equipment
- Cardboard Box
- spoon
- Paintbrush
Materials
- 1 small to medium cardboard box
- 1 cup honey or cornstarch
- 1/3 cup water
- 1 cup seeds, sesame, pumpkin, poppy, walnuts
Instructions
- Open cardboard box
- If low calorie, mix cornstarch and water into a bowl until consistent
- Insert paintbrush into corntarch solution
- For high calorie enrichment, insert paintbrush into cup of honey
- Paint honey or cornstarch solution inside box along bottom and sides
- Mix 1 cup of poppy seeds, sesame seeds, quaker oats, and a handful of pumpkin seeds
- Sprinkle mix of seeds inside cardboard box on top of cornstach solution or honey
- Place inside the refrigerator overnight
- Close cardboard box
- If box is too large, tear a side of box off
- Distribute to NHP
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