Stress responses play a key role in allowing animals to cope with change and challenge in
the face of both environmental certainty and uncertainty. Measurement of glucocorticoid …

Baseline glucocorticoid (cort) levels are increasingly employed as physiological indices of
the relative condition or health of individuals and populations. Often, high cort levels are …

Conservation biologists increasingly face the need to provide legislators, courts and
conservation managers with data on causal mechanisms underlying conservation problems …

As the number and diversity of animal species meriting conservation intervention increases,
improving the success of translocation efforts is vital and understanding the role of …

Over the past few decades, there has been a steep increase in the number of conservation-
related field studies that measure glucocorticoid hormones (corticosterone or cortisol) as a …

Early embryonic exposure to maternal glucocorticoids can broadly impact physiology and
behaviour across phylogenetically diverse taxa. The transfer of maternal glucocorticoids to …

We present a framework to explain how prey stress responses to predation can resolve
context dependency in ecosystem properties and functions such as food chain length …

The stress response, which involves joint activity of the nervous and endocrine systems, is
one of the basic adaptive mechanisms that ensures the survival of the individual. The …

Wild animals are brought into captivity for many reasons—conservation, research,
agriculture and the exotic pet trade. While the physical needs of animals are met in captivity …

Several neuropharmacological actions of cannabidiol (CBD) due to the modulation of the
endocannabinoid system as well as direct serotonergic and gamma-aminobutyric acidergic …