Use: General 

Authors: D. Schildkraut, Boston MetroParks Zoos

Methods: N/A

Publications/Presentations: N/A

Behaviors

Self-directed behaviors

Self-grooming

Sleeping

Sliding

Walking: Specify if bipedal or quadrupedal.

Swinging

Spinning

Handstands

Hand clapping

Hand shaking

Eating

Urinating

Defecating

Object manipulation: Specify the object and indicate how object is manipulated, i.e., thrown, banged, put on head, etc.

Stare

R & R: Regurgitation and reingestion of food.

Coprophagy: Eating feces.

Noncontact social behaviors

Quadrupedal straight leg stance

Open mouth threat

Chest beating

Bluff charges

Vocalizations

Approach: Move toward another animal.

Affiliate: Sits within one arm's length of other.

Displace: One animal moves out of the way as another approaches.

Contact social behaviors

Wrestling

Tumbling

Charging with hitting

Chasing

Tickling

Hitting

Pushing

Biting

Mounting

Copulation

Grooming others

Sit/touch: Sits or reclines in contact with another animal.

Mother/infant behaviors

Nursing: Specify which breast (right or left)

Carrying: Specify v-v, v-d, d-v. arm, leg, thigh, etc.

Retrieve: Mother retrieves infant.

Restrain: Mother prevents infant from leaving her.

Struggle: Infant struggles to get away from mother.

Other

Follow: May be used when any animal follows after another. Often seen in mother/infant pairs.

Cage change: Used when introductions take place to indicate that an animal has moved from one cage to another.