|
Books > Science & Mathematics > Biology, life sciences > Life sciences: general issues > Neurosciences
|
Buy Now
Tempests, Poxes, Predators, and People - Stress in Wild Animals and How They Cope (Hardcover)
Loot Price: R4,294
Discovery Miles 42 940
|
|
|
Tempests, Poxes, Predators, and People - Stress in Wild Animals and How They Cope (Hardcover)
Series: Oxford Series in Behavioral Neuroendocrinology
Expected to ship within 12 - 17 working days
|
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 Earth's 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.
General
Is the information for this product incomplete, wrong or inappropriate?
Let us know about it.
Does this product have an incorrect or missing image?
Send us a new image.
Is this product missing categories?
Add more categories.
Review This Product
No reviews yet - be the first to create one!
|
You might also like..
|
Email address subscribed successfully.
A activation email has been sent to you.
Please click the link in that email to activate your subscription.
Welcome to Loot.co.za!
Sign in / Register |Wishlists & Gift Vouchers |Help | Advanced search
(3)
