Animal stereotype

• Stereotypy, repetitive behaviours of animals; the term has two meanings:
• * repetitive "abnormal" behaviours due to abnormal conditions with no obvious function
• * repetitive normal behaviours due to physiological or anatomical constraints
• Animal epithet, an epithet that compares a human to an animal basing on an animal trait thought as typical to this type of animal
• Anthropomorphism, ascribing a particular category of animals of human traits, emotions, or intentions.