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...

Table of Contents:

• A Decade-or-More's Progress in Understanding Stereotypic Behaviour / J. Rushen and G. Mason
• Stereotypic Oral Behaviour in Captive Ungulates : Foraging, Diet and Gastrointestinal Function / R. Bergeron, A.J. Badnell-Waters, S. Lambton and G. Mason
• Locomotory Stereotypies in Carnivores : Does Pacing Stem from Hunting, Ranging or Frustrated Escape? / R. Clubb and S. Vickery
• The Motivational Basis of Caged Rodents' Stereotypies / H. Würbel
• Perseveration and Stereotypy : Systems-level Insights from Clinical Psychology / J.P. Garner
• Deprived Environments : Developmental Insights from Primatology / M.A. Novak, J.S. Meyer, C. Lutz and S. Tiefenbacher
• The Neurobiology of Stereotypy I : Environmental Complexity / M.H. Lewis, M.F. Presti, J.B. Lewis and C.A. Turner
• The Neurobiology of Stereotypy II : the Role of Stress / S. Cabib
• Environmental Enrichment as a Strategy for Mitigating Stereotypies in Zoo Animals : a Literature Review and Meta-analysis / R. Swaisgood and D. Shepherdson
• Veterinary and Pharmacological Approaches to Abnormal Repetitive Behaviour / D. Mills and A. Luescher
• Stereotypic Behaviour in Captive Animals : Fundamentals and Implications for Welfare and Beyond / G. Mason.