Animal enrichment gifts
Have you ever wanted to give your favourite animal a present? If so, then why not donate some unwanted items or purchase something from our Amazon wishlists.
Don't forget to use giveasyoulive.com and choose the Royal Zoological Society of Scotland before shopping on Amazon. We will receive a percentage of your purchase as a donation to our wildlife conservation charity.
Our animal keepers also use a variety of everyday items to help encourage natural behaviours such as foraging or nesting.
Buy a gift for the animals at our parks
We use all sorts of tools and equipment when caring for all of our animals at Edinburgh Zoo, and it really helps us to continue to provide excellent welfare for out animals when people generously gift things from this list.
Enrichment helps to promote appropriate natural behaviours and to improve animal visibility to both visitors and staff. There are five main types of enrichment: social, cognitive, physical, sensory and food.
Donate enrichment materials
We are always on the lookout for items we can incorporate into enrichment such as:
- Pet Toys – please see the amazon wishlist for ideas
- Tools (for making enrichment such as drill, chain link, saw, silicone moulds for shaping food enrichment, paint brushes, rope, D shackles, carabiners)
- Fire hoses
- Food colouring and flavourings e.g. vanilla essence
- Scented stuff e.g. herbs, spices, aromatherapy oils, perfumes/aftershave
- Edible organic stuff e.g. ketchup, mustard, honey, peanut butter, jelly – palm oil free only
- Seeds (for growing edible flowers, herbs etc)
- Garden equipment e.g. hanging baskets, astroturf
- Clothes
- Linen- sheets, towels, throws, duvet covers, cushion/pillow covers etc – Please note we cannot use duvet or pillow inserts
- Brush heads (natural fibres)
- Unbreakable mirrors
- Wind chimes
- Clear plastic tubes
- Newspaper and large cardboard boxes (please note we cannot use cardboard containing staples or tape)
To donate materials, or provide enrichment in any other way to our beautiful animals, please contact the team on enrichment@rzss.org.uk.
