Abnormal Repetitive Behaviour in captive animals

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• For accounts of stereotypic self-harm in humans
• For a précis of a documentary on instutionalised childen, with video clips of rocking in human and monkey infants.  
  

Illuminating search terms for web-searches include: ‘stims’ or ‘stimming’, for personal accounts of what stereotypic behaviour feels like for people with autism;

‘cribbing’ and ‘stable vices’, for companies selling physical or chemical means of preventing equine ARBs (adding to the images in ‘supplementary information’ above);

and ‘freak bear in zoo’, for equally sad links to ‘comedy’ videos of polar bears stereotyping to music. (eg., on youtube.com)