Age and weight at weaning affect corticosterone level and development of stereotypies in ICR-mice

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 53, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 891-900

  Wurbel H ^a   Stauffacher, M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMALIA; MUS; MUS MUSCULUS; MUS MUSCULUS DOMESTICUS; MUSCULUS;

EID: 0031149995     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/anbe.1996.0424     Document Type: Article

References (56)

1. Amir, S. Z., Brown, Z. W. & Amit, Z. 1981. The role of endorphins in stress: evidence and speculations. Neurosci. Biobehav. Rev., 4, 77-86.
2. Appleby, M. C., Lawrence, A. B. & Illius, A. W. 1989. Influence of neighbours on stereotypic behaviour of tethered sows. Appl. Anim. Behav. Sci., 24, 137-146.
3. Bleuler, E. 1950. Dementia Praecox. New York: International Universities.
4. Cabib, S. 1993. Neurobiological basis of stereotypies. In: Stereotypic Animal Behaviour: Fundamentals and Applications to Welfare (Ed. by A. B. Lawrence & J. Rushen), pp. 119-145. Wallingford, U.K.: CAB International.
5. Cooper, J. J. & Nicol, C. J. 1991. Stereotypic behaviour affects environmental preference in bank voles, Clethrionomys glareolus. Anim. Behav., 41, 971-977.
6. Cooper, J. J. & Nicol, C. J. 1993. The 'coping' hypothesis of stereotypic behaviour: a reply to Rushen. Anim. Behav., 45, 616-618.
7. Cooper, J. J. & Nicol, C. J. 1994. Neighbour effects on the development of locomotor stereotypies. Anim. Behav., 47, 214-216.
8. Cronin, G. & Wiepkema, P. R. 1984. An analysis of stereotyped behaviour in tethered sows. Ann. Rec. Vet., 15, 263-270.
9. Dantzer, R. 1986. Behavioural, physiological, and functional aspects of stereotyped behaviour: a review and a re-interpretation. J. Anim. Sci., 62, 1776-1786.
10. Dantzer, R. 1991. Stress, stereotypies and welfare. Behav. Proc., 25, 95-102.
11. Dawkins, M. S. 1990. From an animal's point of view: motivation, fitness and animal welfare. Behav. Brain Sci., 13, 1-61.
12. DeFries, J. C. & McClearn, G. E. 1970. Social dominance and Darwinian fitness in the laboratory mouse. Am. Nat., 104, 517-531.
13. Dürschlag, M., Würbel, H., Stauffacher, M. & von Holst, D. 1996. Repeated blood collection in the laboratory mouse by tail incision: modification of an old technique. Physiol. Behav., 60, 1565-1568.
14. Duncan, I. J. H. & Wood-Gush, D. G. M. 1972. Thwarting of feeding behaviour in the domestic fowl. Anim. Behav., 20, 444-451.
15. Fentress, J. C. 1976. Dynamic boundaries of patterned behaviour: interaction and self-organization. In: Growing Points in Ethology (Ed. by P. P. G. Bateson & R. A. Hinde), pp. 135-167. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
16. Fentress, J. C. 1977. The tonic hypothesis and the patterning of behavior. Ann. N. Y. Acad. Sci., 290, 370-395.
17. Fraser, A. F. & Broom, D. M. 1990. Farm Animal Behaviour and Welfare. 3rd edn. London: Bailliere Tindall.
18. Fuchs, S. 1981. Consequences of premature weaning on the reproduction of mothers and offspring in laboratory mice. Z. Tierpsychol., 55, 19-32.
19. Hediger, H. 1950. Wild Animals in Captivity. New York: Dover Publications.
20. Horn, J. M. 1974. Aggression as a component of relative fitness in four inbred strains of mice. Behav. Genet., 4, 373-381.
21. Kennes, D., Ödberg, F. O., Bouquet, Y. & de Rycke, P. H. 1988. Changes in naloxone and haloperidol effects during the development of captivity-induced jumping sterotypy in bank voles. Eur. J. Pharmacol., 153, 19-24.
22. König, B. 1994. Components of lifetime reproductive success in communally and solitarily nursing house mice: a laboratory study. Behav. Ecol. Sociobiol., 34, 275-283.
23. Krackow, S. 1992. Sex ratio manipulation in wild house mice, Mus musculus domesticus: the effect of fetal resorbtion. Biol. Reprod., 47, 541-548.
24. Krackow, S. 1993. The effect of weaning weight on offspring fitness in wild house mice, Mus musculus domesticus: a preliminary study. Ethology, 95, 76-82.
25. Krackow, S. & Hoeck, H. N. 1989. Sex ratio manipulation, maternal investment and behaviour during concurrent pregnancy and lactation in house mice. Anim. Behav., 37, 177-186.
26. Lawrence, A. B. & Rushen, J. 1993. Stereotypic Animal Behaviour: Fundamentals and Applications to Welfare. Wallingford: CAB International.
27. Lawrence, A. B. & Terlouw, E. M. C. 1993. A review of behavioral factors involved in the development and continued performance of Stereotypic behaviors in pigs. J. Anim. Sci., 71, 2815-2825.
28. Lloyd, J. A. 1975. Social structure and reproduction in two freely growing populations of house mice (Mus musculus). Anim. Behav., 23, 413-425.
29. Martin, P. & Bateson, P. 1986. Measuring Behaviour: An Introductory Guide. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
30. Mason, G. J. 1991a. Stereotypies: a critical review. Anim. Behav., 41, 1015-1037.
31. Mason, G. J. 1991b. Stereotypies and suffering. Behav. Proc., 25, 103-115.
32. Meyer-Holzapfel, M. 1968. Abnormal behaviour in zoo animals. In: Abnormal Behaviour in Animals (ed. by M. W. Fox), pp. 476-503. London: Saunders.
33. Morris, D. 1964. The response of animals to a restricted environment. Symp. Zool. Soc. Lond., Ser. B, 251, 327-330.
34. Ödberg, F. O. 1978. Abnormal behaviours (stereotypies), introduction to the round table. In: Proc. 1st World Congr. Ethol. Appl. Zootech. (Editorial Garsi), pp. 475-480. Madrid: Industrias Graficas Espana.
35. Ödberg, F. O. 1986. The jumping stereotypy in the bank vole, Clethrionomys glareolus. Biol. Behav., 11, 130-143.
36. Ödberg, F. O., Kennes, D., De Rycke, P. H. & Bouquet, Y. 1987. The effect of interference in the catecholamine biosynthesis on captivity induced jumping stereotypy in bank voles, Clethrionomys glareolus. Archs. int. Pharmacodyn. Thér., 285, 34-42.
37. Palya, W. L. & Zacny, J. P. 1980. Stereotyped adjunctive pecking by caged pigeons. Anim. Learn. Behav., 8, 293-303.
38. Poole, T. B. & Morgan, H. D. 1976. Social and territorial behaviour of laboratory mice (Mus musculus) in small complex areas. Anim. Behav., 24, 476-480.
39. Riley, V. 1981. Psychoneuroendocrine influence on immunocompetition and neoplasia. Science, 212, 1100-1109.
40. Robbins, T. W. 1976. Relationship between reward-enhancing and stereotypical effects of psychomotor stimulant drugs. Nature, Lond., 264, 57-59.
41. Robbins, T. W., Mittleman, G., O'Brien, J. & Winn, P. 1990. The neuropsychological significance of stereotypy induced by stimulant drugs. In: The Neurobiology of Stereotyped Behaviour (Ed. by S. J. Cooper & C. T. Dourish), pp. 25-63. Oxford: Clarendon Press.
42. Rushen, J. 1993. The 'coping' hypothesis of stereotypic behaviour. Anim. Behav., 45, 613-615.
43. Scheuten, W., Rushen, J. & de Passillé, A. M. 1991. Stereotypic behaviour and heart rate in pigs. Physiol. Behav., 50, 617-624.
44. Singleton, G. R. & Hay, D. A. 1983. The effect of social organization on reproductive success and gene flow in colonies of wild house mice, Mus musculus. Behav. Ecol. Sociobiol., 12, 49-56.
45. Smart, J. L., Byrne, E. A. & Dobbing, J. 1977. New thoughts on catch-up growth. Proc. Nutr. Soc., 36, 99.
46. Stevenson, M. F. 1983. The captive environment: its effect on exploratory and related behavioural responses in wild animals. In: Exploration in Animals and Man (Ed. by J. Archer & L. I. A. Birke), pp. 176-197. London: Van Nostrand Reinhold.
47. Stolba, A., Baker, N. & Wood-Gush, D. G. M. 1983. The characterisation of stereotyped behaviour in stalled sows by informational redundancy. Behaviour, 87, 157-181.
48. Terlouw, E. M. C., Lawrence, A. B., Ladewig, J., de Passillé, A. M. B., Rushen, J. & Schouten, W. 1991. A relationship between stereotypies and cortisol in sows. Behav. Proc., 25, 133-153.
49. Terranova, M. L. & Laviola, G. 1995. Individual differences in mouse behavioural development: effects of precocious weaning and ongoing sexual segregation. Anim. Behav., 50, 1261-1271.
50. Valenstein, E. S. 1976. Stereotyped behaviour and stress. In: Psychopathology of Human Adaptation (Ed. by G. Serban), pp. 113-124. New York: Plenum Press.
51. Van Zegeren, K. 1980. Variation in aggressiveness and the regulation of numbers in house mouse populations. Neth. J. Zool., 30, 635-770.
52. Wiedenmayer, C. 1995. The ontogeny of stereotypies in gerbils. Ph.D. thesis, University of Zürich, Switzerland.
53. Wiepkema, P. R. 1990. Stress: ethological implications. In: Psychobiology of Stress (Ed. by S. Puglisi-Allegra & A. Oliverio), pp. 1-14. Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Press.
54. Wolff, R. J. 1985. Mating behaviour and female choice: their relation to social structure in wild caught house mice (Mus musculus) housed in a semi-natural environment. J. Zool., Lond., 207, 43-51.
55. Würbel, H. & Stauffacher, M. 1996. Prevention of stereotypy in laboratory mice: effects on stress-physiology and behaviour. Physiol. Behav., 59, 1163-1170.
56. Würbel, H., Stauffacher, M. & von Holst, D. 1996. Stereotypies in laboratory mice: quantitative and qualitative description of the ontogeny of wire-gnawing and jumping in ICR and ICR nu mice. Ethology, 102, 371-385.