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Stress response to handling is short lived but may reflect personalities in a wild, Critically Endangered tortoise species

We investigated the acute stress response associated with animal personalities by measuring plasma glucocorticoids throughout handling and collected ~2 years of movement and behavioural data in a wild, Critically Endangered animal, Astrochelys radiata (radiated tortoise). To determine whether our st...

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Autores principales: Currylow, Andrea F. T., Louis, Edward E., Crocker, Daniel E.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Oxford University Press 2017
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5356936/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28360999
http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/conphys/cox008