Stereotypical behavior

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Stereotypes behavior is the term for movements and vocalizations that are regularly repeated and consistently occur and not as morbid ( pathological be considered). To stereotypic behavior are Wiederkaubewegungen in cattle, sucking in young animals or game requests by front body subscript for predators. It must be distinguished from pathological stereotypes .

Individual evidence

  1. Lexicon of Biology: Stereotypes Behavior , Spectrum Academic Publishing House, Heidelberg 1999.