It is called stereotypic behavior and it is, unfortunately, common among polar bears and other species in captivity.    From Wordnik.com.  [Columbia Missourian: Latest Articles] Reference

Repeated, purposeless motions-what zoo professionals call "stereotypic behavior"-is a pretty clear sign of a troubled animal.    From Wordnik.com.  [Slate Magazine] Reference

Readers: What's your image of the stereotypic writer?.    From Wordnik.com.  [January 2007] Reference

Drug trips are more stereotypic and visually disruptive.    From Wordnik.com.  [Over the Edge] Reference

The reality sounds just as poignant -- and less stereotypic.    From Wordnik.com.  [Inside Out] Reference

And so I hate German jokes, Nazi jokes, stereotypic Germanic fun-making.    From Wordnik.com.  [Teaching with Feeling « educating alice] Reference

So many teachers in books are these stereotypic, mean, dumpy people who are worn out.    From Wordnik.com.  [100 Cool Teachers in Children's Lit] Reference

The most ambitious, and least stereotypic, network offering is CBS's "Second Chances.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Listening To Their Latin Beat] Reference

We were told that our son's screaming and head-banging was simply stereotypic of autism.    From Wordnik.com.  [Our Toxic Children -- The Epidemic of Autism, ADHD etc.] Reference

So now I see that some guy drew a cartoon with a stereotypic depiction of black cannibals.    From Wordnik.com.  [Thursday is Blog Against Racism Day] Reference

Woody Allen's stereotypic shrink may well be an endangered species these days (following story).    From Wordnik.com.  [Managing The Mind] Reference

No one in the family, including the Mom, looks particularly like a stereotypic image of a hippie.    From Wordnik.com.  ["It was a time of uncertainty, hope and change. The summer of love."] Reference

I harbor stereotypic views about all people of a given race, or gender, or social class, or age, etc.    From Wordnik.com.  [Thursday is Blog Against Racism Day] Reference

I am always amazed at the stereotypic ways that teachers and principals are written about in fiction.    From Wordnik.com.  [Here's a cheerful thought] Reference

They eschewed these things only when preferring them would encourage a stereotypic view of themselves.    From Wordnik.com.  [Thin Ice: Stereotype Threat and Black College Students] Reference

Sensitivity training, racial training, stereotypic training are all given to LAPD officers (inaudible).    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Apr 28, 2002] Reference

Rather than lumping everything and everyone together in a prejudiced and stereotypic way, lets unpack the box.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chip Berlet: Abstaining from Bad Sects] Reference

"It's inappropriate, it's stereotypic, it engages in the worst types of stereotypes about Jews," Foxman told CNN.    From Wordnik.com.  [Jones apologizes for joke] Reference

Before I conclude, I would like to reflect on the stereotypic approach that some in our society make of our youth.    From Wordnik.com.  [Address by Cde Jeff Radebe, member of the ANC National Executive Committee and National Working Committee, Member of the Central Committee of the South African Communist Party, at the Political School convened at the University of Western Cape] Reference

I even harbor a stereotypic view about all people: that all people hold stereotypic views, at least provisionally.    From Wordnik.com.  [Thursday is Blog Against Racism Day] Reference

She was model size, the total opposite of the stereotypic idea of an opera star with the usual mammoth proportions.    From Wordnik.com.  [Women I Have Dressed (and Undressed!)] Reference

This prolonged chaining is linked to deadly foot disorders, arthritis, colic and stereotypic behavior, such as swaying.    From Wordnik.com.  [PETA 'partnering' with Ringling?] Reference

Though I have to admit, Eddie Murphy and Chris Rock put me in stitches when they do their stereotypic white guy voices.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Volokh Conspiracy » Why Jews and Catholics on the Supreme Court?] Reference

Rather, it slowly retreated to one corner of the cage, assuming, as Roizin explained, a stereotypic catatonic position.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Serpent and the Rainbow] Reference

I have a hard time embracing your critique of gender stereotypic marketing when you do the same to support your argument.    From Wordnik.com.  [Marketing Masculinity « Gender Across Borders] Reference

I still think that way about that situation, but your suggestion has opened me to free myself from stereotypic assumptions.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Nervous Breakdown] Reference

The box top features Obama with stereotypic Muslim headgear and the admonition: "Point box toward Mecca for tastier waffles.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Chip Berlet: Bigoted Obama Waffles; Bigoted Values Voter Conference] Reference

Take care Dave conjuring up stereotypic pictures of those uneducated, rascist, West Virginians makes you sound kind of elitist.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hillary Clinton, John McCain and the "Stupid" Vote] Reference

"American manga" by aping the stereotypic style and themes of Japanese comics.    From Wordnik.com.  [COMIXTALK] Reference

Gpr17 expression in oligodendrocytes exhibited stereotypic features of myelinating disorders in the CNS.    From Wordnik.com.  [Naturejobs - All Jobs] Reference

I find this Fritzl story interesting and challenging in many ways, but the most important point is the stereotypic image of.    From Wordnik.com.  [New Statesman] Reference

To be found nowhere in the drawings are the thin, glib, stereotypic marks of casual, rapid L - m o d e s y m b o l i c processing.    From Wordnik.com.  [Recently Uploaded Slideshows] Reference

Finally, it was important for organisations to evaluate the presence of gender-stereotypic language within talent management systems.    From Wordnik.com.  [Management-Issues : News] Reference