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Summary of Wild animals can experience trauma and adversity too



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Wild animals can experience trauma and adversity too


As ecologists, we came up with an index to track how it affects them

https://www.salon.com/2024/10/23/wild-animals-can-experience-trauma-and-adversity-too_partner/

The article discusses the concept of childhood trauma and its lasting repercussions on humans and animals. Researchers have developed a cumulative adversity index for wild animals, similar to the adverse childhood experiences score for humans, to predict negative survival outcomes and identify at-risk populations. The index is tested on yellow-bellied marmots and shows that experiencing even one adversity event before age 2 can halve an adult marmot's odds of survival.
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