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Understanding and treating stereotypies in bears

Understanding stereotypies

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Identifying a stereotypy’s source behavior/goal

Stereotypies of Asiatic black bears & Malayan sun bears

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Stereotypies of polar bears

Other clues to a stereotypy’s source behavior/goal

Motivations suggested to underlie polar bear stereotypies

Treating stereotypies

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The more frequent they were, the more invariantly they were performed

Older bears used enrichments less

More severe stereotypies were reduced less with enrichment

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