More Woodchuck Enrichment

[urbpan]

Fold end of a cardboard toilet paper tube down to close it. Put vegetables from woodchuck's diet inside.



Fold other end of tube to close it, and insert into a cardboard paper towel tube. Put more vegetables from woodchuck's diet into this tube. Repeat first step and insert tp tube into pt tube, to create a three-chambered cardboard tube of vegetables.



Give tube to woodchuck. For further enrichment, put tube into a small closed cardboard box, or a paper bag.



Woodchucks will use what I call the "Gordian solution" to get at the vegetables quickly. (This is why several tubes are used: so that the woodchuck will spend more time getting to its diet.)

Comments

tubular dishes

[frith]

I've used unblocked paper-towel tubes as an alternative dish for the ed fruit bats in the bat box, and similarly, I've used milk cartons in a box on its side as an alternative to the stainless food tray for the fruits bats on exhibit.