Yasmeen Ghavamian

Yasmeen Ghavamian

Davis, CA

University of California - Davis

Animal Biology PhD Student

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Published on Feb 05, 2022

3 years later... PUBLISHED!

We are thrilled to announce that the complex feeding enrichment study on the Malayan sun bears at Oakland Zoo has officially been published in the Journal of Applied Animal Welfare Science!!!This i...

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Published on Oct 25, 2019

Results!

The time has finally come! We have the BIG news you have all been waiting for! After spending the last few months crunching all the numbers using statistical software, I am excited to announce the ...

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Published on Sep 03, 2019

Final Enrichment Challenge!

The time has finally come... we have reached the end of our experiment with this final enrichment challenge for the Malayan sun bears at Oakland Zoo. Last week we provided the bears with Level 3 of...

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Published on Aug 29, 2019

Video Update: Ting Ting with PVC Feeder

In this new video update we have special footage of Ting Ting, the oldest of the three female sun bears, investigating Level 2 of the PVC cross-shaped feeder. At 29 years old, it's amazing to see h...

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Published on Aug 25, 2019

Video Update: Bulan with PVC Feeder

In this new video update, you can see how Malayan sun bear Bulan manipulates Level 2 of the PVC cross-shaped feeder. Bulan appears to be very enthusiastic, and even takes a try at throwing the enri...

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Published on Aug 23, 2019

New PVC Enrichment Challenge!

Oakland Zoo's sun bears were very active this week engaging with Level 2 of the PVC cross-shaped feeder device! In Level 2, there is an additional skinny PVC pipe. This means there are now three PV...

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Published on Aug 18, 2019

Sun Bears Meet New Enrichment Device

The sun bears at Oakland Zoo sure loved their honey-logs! But don't forget - bears are quick-learners! In order to keep these intelligent species active and engaged, we have to provide more variety...

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Published on Aug 11, 2019

Video Update: Bulan with Honey-Log

Happy Sun(Bear)day!! If pictures weren't enough, we now have an exclusive video of one of the sun bears at Oakland Zoo with Level 3 of the honey-log enrichment device!This video was taken by Steven...

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Published on Aug 09, 2019

New Honey-Log Enrichment Challenge!

Remember our very first lab note on "What is Complex Enrichment"? That was such a long time ago! Now that we are 6 weeks into the project, it's worth a reminder as to why this enrichment project is...

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