Abnormal behaviours

5 important questions on Abnormal behaviours

What is abnormal dog behavior?

Every behavior that differs from the normal behavioral repertoire that a species shows in nature.

What types of abnormal behavior are there?

  • Abnormal repetitive behavior (ARB): repetitive behaviors induced by
    - Frustration
    - Repeated attempts to cope
    - Central nervous (brain) dysfunction
  • Stereotypies: repeated, relatively invariant sequence of movements which has no obvious purpose.
  • Behavior with no obvious external stimulus.

What are the features of abnormal behavior?

  • Behavior is no longer related to achieving a certain goal
  • Behavior is strongly increased or decreased
  • Enormous variation between behaviors
  • Individual variation
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What are the causes for abnormal behavior?

  • Medical
  • Breed deposition
  • No fulfillment of behavioral needs

What is the difference between abnormal behaviors and conflict behaviors?

Conflict behavior:
  • Short in duration -> conflict solved
  • Context dependent
  • Many behaviors can arise as conflict behaviors (lower ranking behaviors like comfort)
Abnormal behavior:
  • Long in duration -> conflict not solved
  • Independent of context
  • Often arises from conflict behaviors
  • Many different causes

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