Abnormal Behaviour

Question 1

What are the causes of abnormal behaviour?

Answer 1

• stress
• loud noise
• overcrowded eg. Lots of people/animals around
• boredom, lack of enrichment & under stimulated from captivity
• frustration through restriction of behaviours
• instinct/innate behaviours performed out of context
• external cues eg. Weather
• unnatural social groups / social deprivation
• previous damage to CNS
• pain
• early weaning
• inappropriate training or learning
• one or more of 5 needs not being met

Question 2

Motivations for animals :

Answer 2

• hunting / food
• water
• reproducing
• social contact or avoiding Social contact
• seeking joy / positive emotions
• migration
• removal or avoidance of pain and discomfort

Question 3

Type of abnormal behaviour: stereotypical behaviours

Answer 3

Social, locomotory & oral abnormalities, repetitive, no goal

Question 4

Type of abnormal behaviour: Displacement behaviours

Answer 4

Out of context. For example, a horse wants to walk across the road but can’t so gets frustrated so grooms itself instead as a coping mechanism. Therefore, replacing the behaviour it wants to do with a random one

Question 5

Type of abnormal behaviour: Hyperactivity

Answer 5

Can be a concern if excessive and out of context (specific to individual)

Question 6

Type of abnormal behaviour: Inactivity

Answer 6

A concern if our if context for specific individual

Question 7

Type of abnormal behaviour: ** learned Helpless**

Answer 7

Feel like they want to give up eg. Elephant chained up feels like it cannot escape even if it could and weaves even if it wasn’t chained up