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Laissez-Faire Stallions? Males’ Fecal Cortisol Metabolite Concentrations Do Not Vary with Increased Female Turnover in Feral Horses (Equus caballus) †

SIMPLE SUMMARY: Stress can come in many forms for social animals. We investigated the effects of increased social instability on individual male stress levels in feral horses. When females change groups (thereby leaving one male to join another) stallions will often fight with one another and will r...

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Autores principales: Jones, Maggie M., Nuñez, Cassandra M. V.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: MDPI 2023
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9817692/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36611784
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ani13010176