Animal Enrichment

An animal in human care should have the same opportunities to thrive that their counterparts in the wild should have (minus, perhaps, the constant threat of predators...). With that in mind, keepers have to get creative in how to make life fun, interesting, and intriguing for our animal friends. How do we know what to do? What kind of thought and preparation goes into enrichment? There's a lot happening that you might not have considered in what seems such a simple idea.