Stereotypic animal behaviour : fundamentals and applications to welfare /

• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Wallingford, Oxfordshire, UK : CABI, 2006.
• Edition: Second edition.
• Subjects: Animal behavior.; Animal welfare.; Stereotyped behavior (Psychiatry); Animal Behavior.; Animal Welfare.; Stereotyped Behavior.; Laboratory Animal Science.; Pets and Companion Animals.; Zoo Animals.; Animal Behaviour.; Animal Physiology and Biochemistry (Excluding Nutrition); Non-communicable Diseases and Injuries of Animals.; Veterinary Pharmacology and Anaesthesiology, (New March 2000); Animal Surgery and Non-drug Therapy, (New March 2000); Carnivores.; Horses.; Mice.; Primates.; Rodents.; Abnormal behaviour.; Animal behaviour.; Behaviour.; Behaviour problems.; Brain.; Drug therapy.; Environmental factors.; Feeding behaviour.; Human behaviour.; Laboratory animals.; Livestock.; Motivation.; Pets.; Psychology.; Stress.; Stress response.; Therapy.; Ungulates.; Zoo animals.; Electronic books.
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 This book is comprised of 11 chapters generally discussing different perspectives of stereotypic behaviour in man and animals. The chapters are divided into 3 parts (normal animal and abnormal environment, stereotypic behaviours as pathologies and treating stereotypic behaviours). The first chapter reviews the extent and nature of research into stereotypic behaviour. Chapters 2-4 (part I) focus on the ethological perspective. Behaviour is discussed, including stereotypies, in terms of its motivated basis (stereotyping subjects are normal animals responding in species-typical ways to an abnormal environment). Chapters 5-8 (part II) emphasize clinical psychology, psychiatry and neuroscience. Three assumptions are presented: stereotypies of focus are the products of dysfunction (animal is abnormal); fullest understanding of stereotypies will come from investigating the neurophysiological mechanisms involved; and processes involved at this level have great cross-species generality. Part III (chapter 9 and 10) illustrates how stereotypies can be tackled and reduced by those concerned about their unaesthetic appearance and/or welfare implications. Chapter 11 provides a synthesis of the book and future research and suggestions on how terminology can be improved.