amazingpetenclosures:

I know very little about quail… But I would guess that anything that would work for chickens would probably be good enrichment for game birds in general; things to climb, maybe tunnels to run through/explore, novelty items are always good (like a ball or crinkled up paper, or anything new and different from what they have now), different kinds of food to mix things up, and different ways of feeding them (feeding from a bowl vs scattering the food in bedding vs stringing it up somewhere/mounting a feeder etc.) I don’t think game birds tend to really be interested in toys and such, but if nothing else, toys would make good novelty items for them to investigate. Different textures would be good too; a natural tree branch with bark vs a plastic crate, etc. It might also be fun to grow them a little patch of grass or some other safe plant in a tub that you could put in with them, so they’d be able to explore the plant and check out the soil. Different substrates would also be good.

Anyone else with ideas is more than welcome to pitch in!

I’ve been researching these guys.

Above all, give them a dust bath! They’ll love it. A big pile of straw and a heap of dirt to play in is also good. Most of the above suggestions should also work, but especially new foods. Live insects (not collected from outside in case of diseases) would be great toys/treats. 

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zoologicallyobsessed:

derangedhyena-delphinidae:

I don’t even know what to do or say re: anyone huffing about Blackfish and believing Seaworld’s stuff when there’s so much evidence of their unending nonsense and just Generally Being Not Great at things. Does the whole ‘Seaworld’s under multiple investigations for lying to consumers, shareholders’, etc not… er, clue folks in? 

But Blackfish!

Orca captures happened. Tilikum was a thing. People have died. It’s awful and people should know about it. Sure the film has issues, but they’re vanishingly small compared to the issues that the theme park whose literal purpose of existence is making money has.

mfw.

 guess those whales in buckets are Super Important.

This! Really sick of people insisting Seaworld has the best intentions at heart. It’s a corporation. They only care about profit and they have and will continue to fuck over whales and people alike if it makes them an extra $1.

Some people really need to reevaluate their attitudes towards capitalism and corporations. 

Also Seaworld aren’t amazing because they do a tiny bit of (bad) rescue operations and donate to conservation work, they’re not doing it because they care about their animals but because they want the public to have a positive view of them so they can continue to treat their animals like shit and brush off any claims of animal abuse against them and continue to make money. 

And it works! My god how it works on some of you!