Coping with novelty and stress in free-living house sparrows

Journal of Experimental Biology

Volumn 214, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 821-828

  Lendvai, Ádám Z ^a,b   Bókony, Veronika ^c   Chastel, Olivier ^b  

^a Department of Agricultural Sciences and Environmental Management   (Hungary)

^b CNRS   (France)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PANNONIA   (Hungary)

Author keywords

Coping style; Corticosterone; Neophobia; Novel object test; Passer domesticus; Personality; Stress response

Indexed keywords

CORTICOSTERONE;

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; FEMALE; MALE; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGICAL STRESS; PHYSIOLOGY; SPARROW;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; CORTICOSTERONE; FEMALE; MALE; SPARROWS; STRESS, PHYSIOLOGICAL;

AVES; PASSER DOMESTICUS;

EID: 79951808123     PISSN: 00220949     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1242/jeb.047712     Document Type: Article

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