Medical training

Medical enrichments and training/
Training in a zoo.

Zoological parks are now invested in conservation. There is a real animal welfare awareness. The animal teams rack their brains in order to stimulate the animals and avoid boredom with sensory enrichments (using their senses) and cognitive (using their brains).
Medical training has become common practice to facilitate veterinary care.. It is developed on most species. Caregivers maintain the animal's confidence on a daily basis in order to train him to do manipulation exercises, for medical purposes. It is a privileged exchange with the animal, keeping in mind that the trainer must maintain a certain emotional distance.
Always in the interest of the animal; the latter is not forced to do so, nor constrained. What differentiates it from dressage! In this gallery, discover what the teams of the National Museum of Natural History offer their residents.


    • On this video, an enrichment is offered to the tamarind family of Goeldi (with a newborn baby on dad's back!).

    Worms are hidden in the salad. This drilling activity keeps them busy.

    Video: S. Goutenègre/ Menagerie of the Jardin des Plantes, MNHN.

    This trio of emperor tamarins and golden lion are busy finding insects in this bamboo. Activity he practices in nature.

    Video: S. Goutenègre/ Menagerie of the Jardin des Plantes, MNHN.

    In summer, during the hot weather, the family of golden lion tamarins delight in the fruity ice cubes that the keepers concoct for them!

    Video: S. Goutenègre/ Menagerie of the Jardin des Plantes, MNHN.

    To celebrate Halloween, this couple of Indian porcupines take care of this pumpkin filled with delicacies!

    Video: S. Goutenègre/ Menagerie of the Jardin des Plantes, MNHN.

    These young squirrel monkeys from Bolivia are trying to find insects hidden in Legos.

    Video: S. Goutenègre/ Menagerie of the Jardin des Plantes, MNHN.

    This family of golden lion tamarins are busy tasting locusts hidden in sprouted wheat. They are very fond of it!

    Video: S. Goutenègre/ Menagerie of the Jardin des Plantes, MNHN.

    This couple of yellow-throated martens are focused on flushing out fruit and prey in a coconut shell. Martens have an unstoppable sense of smell!

    Video: S. Goutenègre/ Menagerie of the Jardin des Plantes, MNHN.

    

    Medical training session for golden lion tamarin family. They are desensitized to deworming, so they are used to applying liquid to their skin. This action avoids capture and stress to deworm the animals.

    Accustomed to the healer and busy eating worms, they don't realize anything!

    Video: S. Goutenegre/ Menagerie of the Jardin des Plantes, MNHN.

    Here, a female orangutan is busy finding insects or bledine in an artificial termite mound.

    As in nature, she uses a tool, here a twig, to harvest her precious treat!

    Video: S. Goutenègre/ Menagerie of the Jardin des Plantes, MNHN.

    Young golden lion tamarins undergoing medical training to desensitize them to a transport crate.

     The objective of this training is that this crate is not perceived as traumatic but as a familiar object.

    Useful during transport for transfers or care, this action avoids any capture of the animals and thus avoids stress.

    Video: S. Goutenègre/ Menagerie of the Jardin des Plantes, MNHN.

    Here, a medical golden lion tamarin family training at the weigh-in.

    The animals are subject to regular monitoring of their weight and makes it possible in particular to monitor the pregnancies of the female by her weight gain.

    Video: S. Goutenègre/ Menagerie of the Jardin des Plantes, MNHN.

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