Why and how should we use environmental enrichment to tackle stereotypic behaviour
By G. Mason, R. Clubb, N. Latham, S. Vickery. 2007
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- Effects of predictability on the welfare of captive animals (2007, background): “However, as they, and Mason et al. (2007) warn, there is not a one-to-one relationship, and stereotypies should never be used as the sole indicator of poor welfare (or a reduction as the sole indicator of improved welfare).”
- To pace or not to pace? A review of what abnormal repetitive behavior tells us about zoo animal management (2017, background): “tells us that the zoo is not a common garden (Mason, 2010) and that not all species can adapt to the managed environments or husbandry regimes provided (Mason et al., 2007).”
- Environmental enrichment induces optimistic cognitive bias in rats (2011, result): “Previous studies have shown that enrichment leads to reduction of stereotypies and signs of apparent frustration (Balcombe 2006; Mason et al. 2007).”
- Natural behavioural biology as a risk factor in carnivore welfare: How analysing species differences could help zoos improve enclosures § (2007, background): “…such difficulties suggest either that the fundamental causes of welfare problems are not being targeted, or that enrichments are being utilised too late to prevent chronic stress or deprivation causing lasting changes to the animals’ brains and thence behaviour (as reviewed by Mason et al., 2007).”
- Preference for structured environment in zebrafish (Danio rerio) and checker barbs (Puntius oligolepis) (2011, background): “It has been shown across different taxa that the behaviour of captive animals can be influenced by adding structural heterogeneity to the environment, and that their well-being may be improved by an enriched environment (Balcombe, 2006; Mason et al., 2007; Kistler et al., 2010).”
- Major welfare issues in broiler breeders (2011, result): “However, these birds spent more time feeding than birds fed a standard commercial restriction ration, leaving less time available for stereotypic behaviour which may also explain these results (e.g. Mason et al., 2006).”
- Stereotypic behaviour in captive animals: fundamentals and implications for welfare and beyond. (2006, background): “If we want to reduce stereotypic behaviour and improve welfare simultaneously, improving captive conditions will usually be the key (Mason et al., 2006).”
- Individual and environmental factors associated with stereotypic behavior and fecal glucocorticoid metabolite levels in zoo housed polar bears (2013, background): “Further, since stereotypic behavior may sometimes fulfill a coping function (Mason et al., 2007), its absence in individuals within a population of animals in which stereotypic behavior is prevalent does not necessarily mean that those individuals are in a state of better wellbeing than the others.”
- The potential of the human-animal relationship as an environmental enrichment for the welfare of zoo-housed animals. (2011, background): “(2003) showed that peer-reared calves approached the past, or in the current, environment (Mason and Latham, 2004; Mason et al., 2007).”
- 'Freedom from hunger' and preventing obesity: the animal welfare implications of reducing food quantity or quality (2009, background): “Many argue that stereotypic behaviour is a sign of reduced welfare, as it develops under suboptimal environmental conditions (Dantzer 1986; Mason & Latham 2004) and often appears to reflect frustrated motivation (Mason et al. 2007).”