Swaying, weaving, head bobbing - stereotypic & abnormal behaviour
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- Опубликовано: 18 окт 2024
- Standing in one place swaying the head and shoulders, even the whole body, from side to side, moving the head up and down, or weaving to and fro continuously. Seen in e.g bears and elephants
Abnormal behaviour can include stereotypic behaviours & repetitive behaviours which appear to have no obvious goal or function
Notice - all the animals that do this are locked up in solitary confinement type conditions.
If you are put in solitary confinement for years, you'd go crazy too.
The elephants and bears at our local zoo (Oregon Zoo) also have the same behavior. It's pretty sad to witness to see these animals slowly going crazy.
The saddest part is that since most captive elephants were raised without a mother if they were released into the wild they would have no chance of surviving.
This is heart breaking
Zoochosis (n.): A psychological condition of animals kept in circuses and zoos.
Symptoms include pacing, circling, swaying, and self-injury caused by deprivation, loneliness, stress, desperation, and insanity.
some ignorant people said that they were dancing cutely
Swaying is an indicator of mental and emptional trauma
these videos are heartbreaking. how can people be unable to have a feeling contemplation of the suffering these beings are enduring?
human beings can become like this too. look up some old sanatorium videos. some people in this videos have the same abnormal behaviour. walking up and down etc.
Omg this video was so helpful thank you. I'm doing an animal course and as part of my assissgment was to describe two abnormal behaviours in a bear so thank you cause the video has now given me my second abnormal behaviour.
there is a porcupine at our local free zoo that does this constantly. they recently added another to his enclosure and it doesn't do it.
If you see an Elephant doing this is because there currently unhappy,Its not a happy dance what it appeared.
0:02 That poor black bear on the circus with a head gear on his snout swaying on the right.
The animals are very sad
One of those elephants is kaavan he is chained and weaving is a sign of despair and sadness in elephants 😖😢😭
I believe Kavaan has been sent to a sanctuary now, he's no longer chained and while not free of human intervention, is at least in a better place than before
No it is lie. M from Pakistan and Kaavan is still in the zoo in our country. No steps are taken unfortunately. Btw Kaavan is not in the video
These videos are really usefull, ive heard of the movements but never seen them
What bothers me is that, even when they are rescued from circuses and captivity, they continue to exhibit the same abnormal behaviour.....even when they are supposed to have been rehabilitated. Isn't there something that can be done about that? Here's an example of abnormal behaviour in rescued bears...and there are other more clips about this on that channel - ruclips.net/video/h1vqKyqeDYE/видео.html
Sunita M Sadly, many animals may have been exposed to such terrible living conditions and treatment that they become severely psychologically damaged. Even when these animals have been rehomed to large enclosures and provided with enrichment, these behaviours have often become so ingrained that they will still be displayed. You may be interested to watch a recent documentary discussing stereotypic behaviour, which a Born Free representative took part in, at vimeo.com/94241526.
It becomes an addiction and it's almost impossible to break.
Thank you for posting.
2:57 In front of the swaying elephant the guy says, "you can't guarantee they are stressed unless you do lab" What an uneducated idiot. He must be one of the owners or keepers. They just say whatever will make them look better.
I don't want to start a fight, but that was the most scientific part of the whole video. I think you're right and that these animals literally are stressed and/or mentally damaged from being locked up, but doing the lab work is truly the proper way to really determine if the animal is stressed.
You agree in your statement that they are stressed but then you say that you need to do a lab test to prove that... make up your mind.
True, but the labwork has already been done. Urine samples from stereotypic animals have been taken and compared to urine samples of non stereotypic animals (the control group, same species/gender etc.) And the animals performing stereotipic behaviour had much higher cortisol levels, a hormone excreted during stress. Just like mental disorders in humans, we do not need to do tests to diagnose a mental illness when the symptons are clear.
Thank you for posting BFF
We need to have all zoos and circuses shut down. Because of covid I hear they are financially struggling which is good to hear so with any luck there will be no more zoos and circuses by the end of this year..please lets all hope!
I used to think that the elephants were dancing... Until 4th grade, I learned that it was a illness called zoocosis (don't know how to spell it sorry,) .
They look agitated
free the animals!
These animals are not meant to be caged.
A lot of counties cage these animals for profit... I remember in India many dogs to wild animals were held in small cages :(. Doing irratic behavior
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If this is caused by "Stress", they must exhibit these same symptoms in the wild, wild animals live under extremely stressful conditions..
stewman65 In the wild an animal usually has the option to escape potentially stressful situations - in captivity this choice has been taken away.
It's not exactly stress. They are bored and their needs aren't being met. Elephants a very social and like to stay together and be able to hold each other's trunks or tails. But in captivity these needs are usually never met same with the other animals. So they become sad and bored and often depressed. So the animals will sway to keep busy. Also in the wild elephants don't sway because they are covering huge amounts of land every day and they are faced with having to find water and food and they are able to play with their friends. So they are kept busy and don't develop swaying.
Same goes for all the other animals. They all need love and land and they don't get those things in captivity.
+kate no they are going insane because they have abused him so much he or she is doing that
This is the result of chronic stress. The animals are unable to cope with the stress caused by captivity. In the wild animals only experience acute stress, which is temporary and can be coped with.
But caging animals is ok if it's for our own amusement! /s