{"id":8,"date":"2017-03-27T13:17:33","date_gmt":"2017-03-27T20:17:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/fastereotypies\/?page_id=8"},"modified":"2017-04-09T12:02:56","modified_gmt":"2017-04-09T19:02:56","slug":"page-2","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/fastereotypies\/page-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Characterizing Stereotypic Behaviors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>Stereotypic Behavior Definition:\u00a0<\/strong>Stereotypical behaviors are behaviors that are categorized as abnormal ones, and are defined as the repetition of \u00a0a sequence \u00a0of \u00a0behaviors that\u00a0do not have a well defined goal or function (Ridley, 1994).<\/p>\n<p><strong>Is this a normal behavior for farm animals? <\/strong>The short answer is <strong><span style=\"color: #993300;\">no<\/span><\/strong><span style=\"color: #993300;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">,\u00a0<\/span><\/span>stereotypic behaviors are not what we commonly call a normal behavior. Stereotypies are, in fact, not observed in natural settings, thus their categorization as abnormal behaviors (Mason and Rushen, 2008). Some researchers determined that stereotypical behaviors are a mechanism for animals to adapt to their confined environment due to the physiological changes that the animal undergoes (Fox, 1968).<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Please refer to videos below \u00a0for examples of stereotypical behaviors\u00a0in farm animals- videos are taken from the Youtube website:<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Below is an example of sows performing the bar biting stereotypic behavior &#8211; click on youtube video for reference:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"stereotypies in sows in barren pens\" width=\"604\" height=\"453\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/rqTFr_WO1jE?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Below is an example of cow performing the tongue rolling stereotypic behavior &#8211; click on youtube video for reference:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Tongue Rolling\" width=\"604\" height=\"453\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/LbmhO1WqCu8?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Below is an example of a horse performing the weaving\/ pacing stereotypic behavior &#8211; click on youtube video for reference:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Stereotypical behavior of a Horse in captivity and solutions  - stereotiep\" width=\"604\" height=\"340\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/pMurl5-LI-8?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Check out more images and videos by following the link below &#8211; credits to University of Guelph: \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.aps.uoguelph.ca\/~gmason\/StereotypicAnimalBehaviour\/library.shtml\">Click here<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stereotypic Behavior Definition:\u00a0Stereotypical behaviors are behaviors that are categorized as abnormal ones, and are defined as the repetition of \u00a0a sequence \u00a0of \u00a0behaviors that\u00a0do not have a well defined goal or function (Ridley, 1994). Is this a normal behavior for farm animals? The short answer is no,\u00a0stereotypic behaviors are not what we commonly call a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/fastereotypies\/page-2\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Characterizing Stereotypic Behaviors<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39645,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":1,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-8","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/fastereotypies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/fastereotypies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/fastereotypies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/fastereotypies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/39645"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/fastereotypies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/fastereotypies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":290,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/fastereotypies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8\/revisions\/290"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/fastereotypies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}