Stereotypic animal behaviour : fundamentals and applications to welfare / edited by Georgia Mason and Jeffrey Rushen.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Commonwealth Mycological Institute (Great Britain)

Contributor:

Mason, Georgia.

Rushen, Jeffrey.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Animal behavior.

Animal welfare.

Stereotyped behavior (Psychiatry).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (379 p.)

Edition:

2nd ed.

Place of Publication:

Wallingford : CABI, 2006.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Abnormal behaviour patterns, from the jumping and somersaulting of caged laboratory mice to the pacing of enclosed 'big cats', are displayed by many millions of farm, zoo, research and companion animals. Including new chapters and over 30 contributors, this book focuses on the causation and treatment of these environment-induced stereotypic behaviours, and their implications for animal welfare and normalcy of brain functioning. The book begins by taking an ethological perspective, focusing on the constraints captivity places on animals' normal behavioural repertoires, and the effects these hav

Contents:

Contents; Contributors; 1 A Decade-or-More's Progress in Understanding Stereotypic Behaviour; Box 1.1: Motivation and Motivational Explanations for Stereotypies; Box 1.2: A Quick Systems Sketch of Brain and Behaviour, and the Key Systems Implicated in Stereotypies; Box 1.3: The Coping Hypothesis of Stereotypic Behaviour; Box 1.4: Behavioural Pathology – Attempt at a Biologically Meaningful Definition; PART I: NORMAL ANIMAL, ABNORMAL ENVIRONMENT?; 2 Stereotypic Oral Behaviour in Captive Ungulates: Foraging, Diet and Gastrointestinal Function

3 Locomotory Stereotypies in Carnivores: Does Pacing Stem from Hunting, Ranging or Frustrated Escape?4 The Motivational Basis of Caged Rodents' Stereotypies; PART II: STEREOTYPIC BEHAVIOURS AS PATHOLOGIES; 5 Perseveration and Stereotypy – Systems-level Insights from Clinical Psychology; 6 Deprived Environments: Developmental Insights from Primatology; 7 The Neurobiology of Stereotypy I: Environmental Complexity; 8 The Neurobiology of Stereotypy II: the Role of

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

1-280-73539-2

9786610735396

1-84593-055-X

OCLC:

294880735