Does environmental enrichment reduce stress? An integrated measure of corticosterone from feathers provides a novel perspective.

Enrichment is widely used as tool for managing fearfulness, undesirable behaviors, and stress in captive animals, and for studying exploration and personality. Inconsistencies in previous studies of physiological and behavioral responses to enrichment led us to hypothesize that enrichment and its re...

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Main Authors: Graham D Fairhurst, Matthew D Frey, James F Reichert, Izabela Szelest, Debbie M Kelly, Gary R Bortolotti
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2011-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3055884?pdf=render