Stereotypic Animal Behaviour

Georgia Mason is a behavioural biologist a the University of Guelph, Canada, who studies how animals adapt (or fail to adapt) to captive housing conditions, especially conditions that meet their physiological needs but are too small or monotonous to allow natural behaviour. She is also interested in the validation of animal welfare indicators.

I: Introduction: A decade-or-more’s more progress in understanding stereotypies, J Rushen and G Mason Part 1: Normal Animal, Abnormal Environment? 1: Stereotypic oral behaviour in captive unguates: Foraging, diet and gastro-intestinal function, R Bergeron, A Badnell-Waters, Equine Consultancy Services, UK, S Lambton, University of Bristol, UK, and G Mason 2: Locomotory stereotypies in carnivores: does pacing stem from hunting, ranging or frustrated escape? R Clubb, Care for the Wild International, UK, and S Vickery, Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, UK 3: The motivational basis of caged rodents’ stereotypies, H Würbel, Justus-Liebig-Universitat Giessen, Germany Part 2: Stereotypies as Pathologies 4: Perseveration and Stereotypy – Systems-Level Insights from Clinical Psychology, J Garner, Purdue University, USA 5: Social deprivation and social separation: Developmental insights from primatology, M A Novak, J S Meyer, University of Massachusetts, USA, C Lutz and S Tiefenbacher, New England Primate Research Center, USA 6: The Neurobiology of Stereotypy I: Environmental Complexity, M H Lewis, M F Presti, University of Florida, USA, J B Lewis, New College of Florida, USA, and C A Turner, University of Michigan, USA 7: The Neurophysiology of Stereotypy II - The Role of Stress, S Cabib, Universita "La Sapienza", Italy Part 3: Treating Stereotypies 8: Environmental enrichment as a strategy for mitigating stereotypies in zoo animals: a literature review and meta-analysis, R Swaisgood, Center for Reproduction of Endangered Species, San Diego, USA, and D Shepherdson, Oregon Zoo, USA 9: Veterinary and pharmacological approaches to abnormal repetitive behaviour , D Mills, University of Lincoln, UK, and A Luescher, Purdue University, USA Part 4: In Conclusion 10: Stereotypies in captive animals: Fundamentals and implications for animal welfare, G Mason