Variation in vervet (Chlorocebus aethiops) hair cortisol concentrations reflects ecological disturbance by humans

2015/08/28 by Nicolaas H. Fourie, Trudy R. Turner, Janine L. Brown +3 · 51 citations
Neuroscience · Psychology · Veterinary · #Aggression #Animal Behavior and Welfare Studies #Animal ecology #Biology #Cercopithecus aethiops #Demography #Developmental psychology #Disturbance (geology) #Ecology #Foraging #Population #Primate #Primate Behavior and Ecology #Psychology #Stress Responses and Cortisol #Vervet monkey #Zoology

paper · doi:10.1007/s10329-015-0486-y

published in Primates 56(4), 365-373 (Springer Science+Business Media)

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