Affiliation:
1. Department of Psychology, University of New Orleans, New Orleans, LA 70148, USA
Abstract
Abstract
In a colony of 52 antelope ground squirrels conceived in the wild and raised in the laboratory, 42% of adult animals exhibited freezing and seizure-like behaviour in response to the minor stress of monthly cage changes. This behavioural pattern, which was never exhibited at other times, is similar to that previously described in Mongolian gerbils. Characteristics of the behavioural pattern do not seem to be indicative of a captivity-induced stereotypy.
Subject
Behavioral Neuroscience,Animal Science and Zoology