Conservation medicine is a discipline in which researchers and conservationists study and
respond to the dynamic interplay between animals, humans, and the environment. From a …

This paper reviews recent advances in field endocrinology, a focus as well as a method in
primatology and behavioral ecology that permits the examination of social behavior and life …

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 …

Noninvasive fecal glucocorticoid analysis has tremendous potential as a means of
assessing stress associated with environmental disturbance in wildlife. However …

The status of many carnivore populations is of growing concern to scientists and
conservationists, making the need for data pertaining to carnivore distribution, abundance …

The aim of this comparative study was to gain more information about the excretion of
steroid hormones in farm animals. This should help to establish or improve non-invasive …

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

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 …

The Northern Spotted Owl (Strix occidentalis caurina) continues to decline across its entire
range at a rate exceeding 4% per year, with a 1% annual acceleration (Burnham et al …

The study of physiological stress and its context in free-ranging animals provides a means
for understanding the challenges found in the natural habitat. Patterns of physiological …