Les macaques mâles jouent aussi à NHL 15 avec leu bons chums et ça réduit leur stress. Q: How are you measuring the stress and the effect of the bonding? R: We look at glucocorticoids which is a hormone which is excreted or produced during stressful times so the higher your levels of glucocorticoids, the higher your stress levels. So, we collected faecal samples which means that we don’t have to capture the animals or anything like this. It’s a natural method and non-invasive. We measure their social bonds through the rates at which they affiliate with each other. So, how often they sit together or groom together, feed together, things like these and then you have a proportion of individuals that socialise much less and once that socialise much more. We were interested in, if those that have these strong social bonds that socialise the most gain stress reducing benefits.
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