Fiona French

Fiona French

Dec 02, 2016

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Penguin Playground

Michelle Westerlaken (Inviting Animals as Players) gave us our brief for enriching penguins.  She's investigating how to design new games with Magellanic penguins as part of a long-term research project, so we discussed lots of novel ideas around this theme.

(image courtesy Yingxue Zhang)

You can watch the penguin team - Michelle Westerlaken, Mark Campbell, Yingxue Zhang and Joe Yong - talking about their ideas here:


Enrichment for Penguins at ZooJam 2016 from Fiona French on Vimeo.

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About This Project

Many predators have complex, unpredictable hunting behaviours, which we believe can be promoted in captive situations by using high tech environmental enrichment. At our ZooJam in November (a multi-disciplinary workshop), we designed such enrichment for sea lions, penguins and large cats. Now, with your help, we're ready to start building and testing prototypes

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