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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

  • Written by Xochitl Ortiz Ross, Ph.D. Candidate in Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, University of California, Los Angeles
imageMarmots were the perfect test species for a wildlife adversity index. Xochitl Ortiz Ross

Psychologists know that childhood trauma, or the experience of harmful or adverse events, can have lasting repercussions on the health and well-being of people well into adulthood. But while the consequences of early adversity have been well researched in humans...

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