Stereotypic Animal Behaviour: Fundamentals and Applications to Welfare

This book focuses on the causation and treatment of environmental-induced stereotypic behaviours, and their implications for animal welfare and normalcy of brain function. 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. Includes new chapters and more than 30 contributors.  

Table of Contents: Introduction: A decade-or-more?s more progress in understanding stereotypies; Part 1: Normal Animal, Abnormal Environment?: Stereotypic oral behaviour in captive unguates: Foraging, diet and gastro-intestinal function; Locomotory stereotypies in carnivores: does pacing stem from hunting, ranging or frustrated escape?; The motivational basis of caged rodents' stereotypies; Part 2: Stereotypies as Pathologies: Perseveration and Stereotypy: Systems-Level Insights from Clinical Psychology; Social deprivation and social separation: Developmental insights from primatology; The Neurobiology of Stereotypy I: Environmental Complexity; The Neurophysiology of Stereotypy II - The Role of Stress; Part 3: Treating Stereotypies: Environmental enrichment as a strategy for mitigating stereotypies in zoo animals: a literature review and meta-analysis; Veterinary and pharmacological approaches to abnormal repetitive behaviour; Part 4: In Conclusion: Stereotypies in captive animals: Fundamentals and implications for animal welfare.

Second Edition. 367 pages. Paperback, Hardcover & eBook. Suitable for researchers and advanced students in animal behaviour and welfare, animal and veterinary science, comparative psychology and neuroscience.  

ISBN: Paperback: 978-1-84593-465-1, Hardback: 978-0-85199-004-0, eISBN: 978-1-84593-055-4

Paperback: £43.40, Hardback: £94.99, eBook: £43.40