Talk:Animal psychopathology

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I think Animal Psychopathology is a misnomer. What is meant here is "animal models of human neuropsychiatric disorders". Something that is pathologic in a human being may be rather normal in an animal, although that does not exclude that this animal might be a good model for some human condition. As it stands now, I am not sure that this article is useful. If it is to be about animal models, than a more complete enumeration would be warranted. --Crusio 22:43, 9 November 2007 (UTC)

No, while these disorders are similar to human disorders, they are separate conditions in their own right. Animal psychology is its own subject of study, not necessarily in the context of modeling human abnormalities. --Iamozy (talk) 20:03, 15 December 2013 (UTC)

Apathy

"Being apathetic can have a fitness advantage for the organism." - this is probably the weirdest thing I've read on Wikipedia. Apathy is no hibernation. This should be explained or have at least have a reference. --78.54.8.22 (talk) 08:05, 19 April 2013 (UTC)

Quality of article

This article has numerous problems with examples in incorrect sections (e.g. why discuss rats and beetles in Thin Sow Syndrome?) The section on eating disorders starts with "Animals in the wild appear to be relatively free from eating disorders although their body composition fluctuates depending on seasonal and reproductive cycles. However, domesticated animals including farm, laboratory and pet animals are prone to disorders. Evolutionary fitness drives feeding behavior in wild animals. The expectation is that farm animals also display this behavior, but questions arise if the same principles apply to laboratory and pet animals." This does not make sense in so many ways...what is the relevance of body composition? Do only domesticated animals show eating disorders - what about zoo animals? Does fitness have nothing to do with feeding behaviour in non-wild animals? Which questions "arise"? I suggest this article needs a thorough re-write.__DrChrissy (talk) 19:35, 24 April 2013 (UTC)

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Useless redirect

Zoochosis redirects to this article, but isn’t mentioned at all. ZFT (talk) 00:00, 17 November 2017 (UTC)