Ага. С.В. Попов вроде бы получил данные, что стереотипия позволяет животным лучше справляться со стрессом. Это - на разных животных из ЗОО. Но вот у лошадей так не вышло:
BMC Vet Res. 2013; 9: 3.
Published online 2013 Jan 7. doi: 10.1186/1746-6148-9-3
PMCID: PMC3544618
Plasma cortisol and faecal cortisol metabolites concentrations in stereotypic and non-stereotypic horses: do stereotypic horses cope better with poor environmental conditions?
Carole Fureix,corresponding author1,5 Haïfa Benhajali,1 Séverine Henry,1 Anaelle Bruchet,1 Armelle Prunier,2 Mohammed Ezzaouia,3 Caroline Coste,1 Martine Hausberger,1 Rupert Palme,4 and Patrick Jego1
Stereotypic behaviours, i.e. repetitive behaviours induced by frustration, repeated attempts to cope and/or brain dysfunction, are intriguing as they occur in a variety of domestic and captive species without any clear adaptive function. Among the different hypotheses, the coping hypothesis predicts that stereotypic behaviours provide a way for animals in unfavourable environmental conditions to adjust. As such, they are expected to have a lower physiological stress level (glucocorticoids) than non-stereotypic animals. Attempts to link stereotypic behaviours with glucocorticoids however have yielded contradictory results. Here we investigated correlates of oral and motor stereotypic behaviours and glucocorticoid levels in two large samples of domestic horses (NStudy1 = 55, NStudy2 = 58), kept in sub-optimal conditions (e.g. confinement, social isolation), and already known to experience poor welfare states. Each horse was observed in its box using focal sampling (study 1) and instantaneous scan sampling (study 2). Plasma samples (collected in study 1) but also non-invasive faecal samples (collected in both studies) were retrieved in order to assess cortisol levels.
Results
Results showed that 1) plasma cortisol and faecal cortisol metabolites concentrations did not differ between horses displaying stereotypic behaviours and non-stereotypic horses and 2) both oral and motor stereotypic behaviour levels did not predict plasma cortisol or faecal cortisol metabolites concentrations.
Conclusions
Cortisol measures, collected in two large samples of horses using both plasma sampling as well as faecal sampling (the latter method minimizing bias due to a non-invasive sampling procedure), therefore do not indicate that stereotypic horses cope better, at least in terms of adrenocortical activity.
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Мне кажется, что стереотипия = снижение внимания к окружающему, то есть нечто вроде аутизма. Потому что стереотипия возникает при введении наркотических веществ.Такие методики индукции стереотипии у лабораторных животных давно известны, я сама их ставила тоже.
