Stereotypic route-tracing in experimentally-caged songbirds correlates with general behavioural disinhibition.

102 citations recorded by the source corpus.

How researchers see this paper

The researchers whose trusted networks rank it highest, strongest advocate first. Every researcher gets a different order.

Stereotypic behaviour in captive animals: fundamentals and implications for welfare and beyond. (2006, background): “…parrots and polar bears, for instance, may place their feet in exactly the same location each time they repeat a circuit (e.g. Wechsler, 1991; Garner et al., 2003b); but in others, in contrast, a variety of postures and movements are employed (as in self-biting or hair-plucking, cf. e.g.…”
To pace or not to pace? A review of what abnormal repetitive behavior tells us about zoo animal management (2017, background): “Route pacing in caged blue tits (Parus caeruleus) and marsh tits (Parus palustris) results in the wearing of feathers because of repeated contact between the feather and the bird’s cage (Garner et al., 2003a), demonstrating how observable changes to body condition can result from ARB performance.”