Tempests, Poxes, Predators, and People: Stress in Wild Animals and How They Cope

by John C. Wingfield and L. Michael Romero

Although scientists have discovered many fundamental physiological and behavioral mechanisms that comprise the stress response, most of current knowledge is based on laboratory experiments using domesticated or captive animals. Scientists are only beginning, however, to understand how stress impacts wild animals - by studying the nature of the stressful stimuli that animals in their natural environments have adapted to for survival, and what the mechanisms...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195366697
• ISBN13: 9780195366693
• Release Date: November 2015
• Publisher: Oxford Univ PR
• Length: 624 Pages
• Weight: 2.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 6.9" x 10.1"