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 …

In most cooperatively breeding birds and mammals, reproductive rates are lower for social
subordinates than for dominants, and it is common for reproduction in subordinates to be …

In fluctuating environments, mothers may enhance the fitness of their offspring by adjusting
offspring phenotypes to match the environment they will experience at independence. In free …

The Southern Resident killer whale population (Orcinus orca) was listed as endangered in
2005 and shows little sign of recovery. These fish eating whales feed primarily on …

Prey responses to high predation risk can be morphological or behavioural and ultimately
come at the cost of survival, growth, body condition, or reproduction. These sub‐lethal …

Fecal glucocorticoid metabolite analyses are increasingly being used by a variety of
scientists (eg, conservation biologists, animal scientists) to examine glucocorticoid (ie, stress …

Methods to measure metabolites of steroid hormones from faeces have become very
popular in wildlife conservation and ecology, because they allow gathering physiological …

Non-invasive faecal oestrogen and progesterone metabolite evaluations are well
established approaches for monitoring reproductive function in a variety of mammalian …

We report the development and application of a method using domestic dogs (Canis
familiaris Linnaeus, 1758) to systematically locate wildlife scat over large remote areas …

Noninvasive fecal assays were used to study steroid metabolism and ovarian activity in
several felid species. Using the domestic cat (Felis catus) as a model, the excretory products …