Corticosterone responses of hand-reared and parent-reared grey-faced petrel chicks (Pterodroma macroptera gouldi)

Zoo Biology

Volumn 24, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 283-290

  Adams, N J ^a   Cockrem, J F ^b   Taylor, G A ^c   Candy, E J ^b   Bridges, J ^b  

^a UNITEC INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (New Zealand)

^b MASSEY UNIVERSITY   (New Zealand)

^c DEPARTMENT OF CONSERVATION   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Captive rearing; Habituation; Procellariidae; Seabird; Stress; Translocation

Indexed keywords

AVES; PROCELLARIIDAE; PTERODROMA MACROPTERA;

EID: 26444530663     PISSN: 07333188     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/zoo.20047     Document Type: Article

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