Foraging 'enrichment' as treatment for pterotillomania

Applied Animal Behaviour Science

Volumn 111, Issue 1-2, 2008, Pages 85-94

  Lumeij, Johannes T ^a   Hommers, Caroline J ^b  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b NONE   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

African grey parrot; Animal model; Feather pecking; Impulse control disorder; Psychogenic feather picking; Redirected foraging behaviour; Trichotillomania

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY; BEHAVIORAL RESPONSE; BIRD; DISEASE TREATMENT; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; NUMERICAL MODEL; PLUMAGE; PSYCHOLOGY;

ANIMALIA; PSITTACIDAE; PSITTACUS ERITHACUS;

EID: 41249099160     PISSN: 01681591     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.applanim.2007.05.015     Document Type: Article

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