Description: Tempests, Poxes, Predators, and People : Stress in Wild Animals and How They Cope, Hardcover by Romero, L. Michael; Wingfield, John C., ISBN 0195366697, ISBN-13 9780195366693, Like New Used, Free P&P in the UK 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 that allow that survival might be. This book summarizes, for the first time, several decades of work on understanding stress in
natural contexts. The aim is two-fold. The first goal of this work is to place modern stress research into an evolutionary context. The stress response clearly did not evolve to cause disease, so that studying how animals use the stress response to survive in the wild should provide insight into
why mechanisms evolved the way that they did. The second goal is to provide predictions on how wild animals might cope with the Anthropocene, the current period of Earths history characterized by the massive human remodeling of habitats on a global scale. Conservation of species will rely upon
how wild animals use their stress response to successfully cope with human-created stressors.
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Book Title: Tempests, Poxes, Predators, and People : Stress in Wild Animals a
Number of Pages: 624 Pages
Language: English
Publication Name: Tempests, Poxes, Predators, and People: Stress in Wild Animals and How They Cope
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Publication Year: 2015
Subject: Zoology, Biology, Psychiatry
Item Height: 256 mm
Item Weight: 1262 g
Type: Textbook
Author: John C. Wingfield, L.Michael Romero
Series: Oxford Series in Behavioral Neuroendocrinology
Item Width: 188 mm
Format: Hardcover
