Wild animals can experience trauma and adversity too ? as ecologists, we came up with an index to track how it affects them

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... are a large ground squirrel closely related to groundhogs. Our research group has been studying these marmots in Colorado at the Rocky Mountain Biological Laboratory since 1962. Yellow-bellied marmots are an excellent study system because they are... ... researchers ask new questions about how animals adapt to stress in the wild. Xochitl Ortiz Ross has received funding from The National Science Foundation, The University of California, Los Angeles, The Rocky Mountain Biological Laboratory, T

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