Stereotypies: a critical review

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“…mental retardation, schizophrenia, or autism) and in some caged animals. They include stereotypies, traditionally defined as repetitive, invariant, and apparently functionless [5,6], more morphologically variable activities such as hair/fur/feather plucking, and -in humans -behavioural expressions of obsessions or restricted interests. In this paper, we will use the term abnormal repetitive behaviour (ARB) to encompass all of these.…”

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Recurrent perseveration correlates with abnormal repetitive locomotion in adult mink but is not reduced by environmental enrichment

Ahloy‐Dallaire

Meagher

Díez-León

et al. 2011

Behavioural Brain Research

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a b s t r a c tWe analysed the relationship between abnormal repetitive behaviour (ARB), the presence/absence of environmental enrichment, and two types of behavioural disinhibition in farmed American mink, Neovison vison. The first type, recurrent perseveration, the inappropriate repetition of already completed responses, was assessed using three indices of excessive response repetition and patterning in a biascorrected serial two-choice guessing task. The second type, disinhibition of prepotent responses to reward cues, a form of impulsivity, was tested in a locomotive detour task adapted from primate reaching tasks: subjects were required to walk around, rather than directly into, a transparent barrier behind which food was visible. In older adult females, recurrent perseveration positively predicted pre-feeding abnormal repetitive locomotion (ARL) in Non-enriched housing. High-ARL subjects also performed repeated (same-choice) responses more rapidly than low-ARL animals, even when statistically controlling for alternated (different-choice) response latency. Mink performed much less ARL following transfer to Enriched housing, but there was no corresponding change in recurrent perseveration. Thus, elevated recurrent perseveration is not sufficient for frequent ARL; and while captive environments do determine ARL frequency, in mink, they do not necessarily do so by modifying levels of perseveration. Disinhibition of prepotent responses to reward cues, meanwhile, did not predict ARL. In a separate sample of differentially housed young adults, neither type of behavioural disinhibition predicted ARL, and again, whether or not housing was enriched did not affect behavioural disinhibition despite affecting ARL. Thus, the relationship between recurrent perseveration and ARB may only develop with age; longitudinal studies are now required for confirmation.

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Recurrent perseveration correlates with abnormal repetitive locomotion in adult mink but is not reduced by environmental enrichment

Ahloy‐Dallaire

Meagher

Díez-León

et al. 2011

Behavioural Brain Research

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“…Stereotypies are generally defined as unvarying, repetitive behavior patterns that have no obvious goal or function [33]. It has been suggested that gentle feather pecking (usually performed in long bouts) has stereotypic characteristics [23], as its motor patterns closely resemble drug-induced stereotypic pecking in chickens [3].…”

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Adrenocortical reactivity and central serotonin and dopamine turnover in young chicks from a high and low feather-pecking line of laying hens

Hierden

Korte

Ruesink

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Physiology & Behavior

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Adrenocortical reactivity and central serotonin and dopamine turnover in young chicks from a high and low feather-pecking line of laying hens van Hierden, YM; Korte, SM; Ruesink, EW; van Reenen, CG; Engel, B; Korte-Bouws, GAH; Koolhaas, JM; Blokhuis, HJ Take-down policy If you believe that this document breaches copyright please contact us providing details, and we will remove access to the work immediately and investigate your claim.Downloaded from the University of Groningen/UMCG research database (Pure): http://www.rug.nl/research/portal. For technical reasons the number of authors shown on this cover page is limited to 10 maximum. AbstractFeather pecking in domestic fowl is a behavioral abnormality that consists of mild or injurious pecking at feathers of conspecifics. Previously, it was shown that chicks from a high feather-pecking (HFP) and low feather-pecking (LFP) line of laying hens already differ in their propensity to feather peck at 14 and 28 days of age. As a first step in investigating a possible relationship between the development of feather pecking and physiological and neurobiological characteristics of laying hens, two subsequent experiments were carried out. Firstly, we investigated the development of adrenocortical (re)activity in HFP and LFP chicks during the first 8 weeks of life. Secondly, we studied dopamine (DA) and serotonin (5-HT) turnover in the brain of 28-day-old HFP and LFP chicks. In both experiments, chicks were exposed to manual restraint (placing the chicks on its side for 5 min). Plasma corticosterone levels were lower (baseline on Days 3 and 56; restraintinduced on Days 3, 14 and 28) in HFP chicks. Both brain DA and 5-HT turnover were lower in the HFP chicks, as well. Possible consequences for the observed differences in (stress) physiology and neurobiology between the two lines in relation to the feather pecking are discussed. D

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“…Although scientists have not been able to demonstrate a clear correlation between stress and stereotypies it is a common assumption that stereotypies reflect some kind of frustration (e.g. Mason 1991). Investigations have shown that the level of circulating eosinophils in the dam increases as the kits grow older (Heller et al 1988).…”

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Behaviour of mink kits and dams (Mustela vison) in the lactation period

Brink¹,

Jeppesen²

2005

Can. J. Anim. Sci.

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Brink, A.-L. and Jeppesen, L. L. 2005. Behaviour of mink kits and dams (Mustela vison) in the lactation period. Can. J. Anim. Sci. 85: 7-12. This study describes the development of the behaviour of mink kits and dams from the fourth to the eighth respectively seventh week after delivery. The study is based on scan observations of 72 mink dams and their kits at a conventional Danish mink farm. The kits started eating when they were about 30 d old. Drinking started almost 2 wk later. During these 2 wk there was a peak in the licking of saliva from the dam and of the inter-litter agonistic behaviour. A causal relationship between experienced thirst and agonistic behaviour is suggested. The kits' sucking declined to only 5% of the time budget in the seventh week and the stereotypy frequency of the dams increased to about 4% of the time budget. It is suggested that some dams are frustrated by the forced cohabitation with their nutritionally independent kits already in the seventh week and that this should be taken into account when deciding time of weaning. Can. J. Anim. Sci. 85: 7-12. Cette étude décrit l'évolution du comportement des femelles du vison et de leurs petits de la quatrième à la septième et huitième semaine, respectivement, suivant la mise bas. L'étude repose sur l'observation par balayage de 72 femelles et de leurs petits dans un élevage classique du Danemark. Les petits commencent à manger à l'âge d'environ 30 jours; il se mettent à boire près de deux semaines plus tard. Au cours de ces deux semaines, l'absorption de la salive de la mère par léchage atteint un maximum tout comme le comportement agonistique entre les portées. Les auteurs pensent qu'il existe un lien causal entre la soif et le comportement agonistique. À la septième semaine, les jeunes ne tètent plus que 5 % du temps et la fréquence des comportements répétitifs de la mère augmente à environ 4 % du temps. Il se pourrait que la cohabitation forcée avec des jeunes capables de se nourrir eux-mêmes accroît la frustration de certaines mères la septième semaine et on devrait en tenir compte pour établir quand procéder au sevrage.

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Stereotypies: a critical review

Cited by 1,013 publications

References 118 publications

Recurrent perseveration correlates with abnormal repetitive locomotion in adult mink but is not reduced by environmental enrichment

Recurrent perseveration correlates with abnormal repetitive locomotion in adult mink but is not reduced by environmental enrichment

Adrenocortical reactivity and central serotonin and dopamine turnover in young chicks from a high and low feather-pecking line of laying hens

Behaviour of mink kits and dams (Mustela vison) in the lactation period

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