Abnormal Behavior

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In this section of my work I will be writing about how you can manage an animal will has an abnormal behaviour or how you can start the treatment for an animal if it has an abnormal behaviour. When an animal has an abnormal behaviour there is many ways in which the owner or trainer can help rehabilitate the animal so they can try and decrease or stop the animal from acting out the abnormal behaviour. There is many different enrichment techniques that you can do for both captive and domestic animals, For instance :
Novel Enrichments
Sensory Enrichment
Feeding Enrichment
Social Enrichment
Training Enrichment
These types of enrichment techniques can be adapted in many different types of ways for many different species that are showing abnormal
This head bobbing behaviour is not an normal behaviour in which the elephant would carry out on a daily basis in the wild as they would be in their natural habitat. You can manage this abnormal behaviour in many different ways such as trying to enrich the elephants enclosure with items and food which would stimulate the elephants mind and try to take their mind of whatever the situation is that they are trying to cope with. Captive wild elephants can be given toys and some other object which they might not come across in their natural habitat, this is called novel enrichment. Any type of enrichment can be beneficial to an wild animal that is in a captive environment. Novel enrichment is a good type of enrichment for this elephant that uses head bobbing as a coping mechanism as it will attract her to use their time to do something that is more fun for them and will let them use their mind to show that it can be used for something other than carrying out zoonotic behaviours. These objects that are added into the elephants enclosure can be in the shape of many different items but by the keeper adding them they have benefited the elephants mind and tried to manage and control the elephants behaviours showing a great start on a full treatment plan on helping the elephant get on a more stable ground of thinking and maybe not expressing
This is because if the dog is getting a food based treat then they will think that they are doing something good meaning that if they get a treat for not tail spinning then they will not do it for more treats. By taking the dog's mind of acting out the abnormal behaviour by adding food in this will be a positive key into treating and managing the dog's problem, but cannot be a long term arrangement, due to the treats being very high in fat meaning it can lead to making the dog obese hindering the dog's life. Treating a dog with an abnormal behaviour such as Tail Spinning can be very difficult as the dog would have had long term psychological problems to get to the stage where they constantly tail