Open AccessWhat can be learnt from wheel-running by wild mice, and how can we identify when wheel-running is pathological?
Author(s) -
Georgia Mason,
Hanno Würbel
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
proceedings of the royal society b biological sciences
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.342
H-Index - 253
eISSN - 1471-2954
pISSN - 0962-8452
DOI - 10.1098/rspb.2015.0738
Subject(s) - wheel running , pathological , computer science , biology , pathology , medicine , endocrinology
Meijer & Robbers recently reported wheel-running (WR) in wild mice [[1][1]]. Arguing that because WR occurs in non-captive animals, with bout lengths resembling those from a laboratory study, this ‘falsifies one criterion for stereotypic behaviour’ [[1][1], p. 1]. They suggest that this should
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