Miller Park Zoo offering insight to animal enrichment

Posted on February 18, 2017
The event will be from 1 p.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday. (WJBC file photo)

By Adam Studzinski

BLOOMINGTON – Miller Park Zoo is holding a special event Saturday for the public to learn more about animal behavior.

Zoo Business Manager Anthony Nelson explained Animal Enrichment Day: Valentine Edition offers a chance for guests to see how Zookeepers make the lives of the zoo’s animals more exciting.

“Enrichment’s just the way to make the animal’s environment as natural as possible,” said Nelson. “Stimulate natural behaviors, like foraging, hunting, things like that.”

Nelson added all their animals receive daily enrichment to help stimulate habits they would develop in the wild.

“We kind of design talks and then create enrichment around that,” said Nelson. “So that guests can get a little talk from a zookeeper and then watch them give that animal enrichment to see how it works on a daily basis.”

The event is free with zoo admission and will take place between 1 p.m. and 3 p.m. on Saturday.

Adam Studzinski can be reached at [email protected].

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