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RECENT RESEARCH FINDINGS

Fecal Cortisol Reflects Stressful Events in Chimpanzees

A new tool to assess stress and animal well-being

Because excreted steroids reflect steroid secretion over a number of hours, it has been unclear whether fecal cortisol could be used to assess the stressfulness of a relatively brief event.  Our recently published study shows that fecal cortisol rises threefold following anesthesia in chimpanzees, resembling the elevation we observed in urinary cortisol.  

P.L. Whitten, R.C. Stavisky, F. Aureli, and E. Russell 1998 Response of fecal cortisol to stress in captive chimpanzees. American Journal of Physical Anthropology 44:57-69.

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