More allogrooming is followed by higher physiological stress in wild female baboons
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DOI: 10.1098/rsbl.2024.0163
Abstract: Social bonds increase fitness in a range of mammals. One pathway by which social bonds may increase fitness is by reducing the exposure to physiological stress, i.e. glucocorticoid (GC) hormones, that can be detrimental to… read more here.
Keywords: physiological stress; fitness; wild female; social bonds ... See more keywords