Wild animals can experience trauma and adversity too − as ecologists, we came up with an index to track how it affects them
- Written by Xochitl Ortiz Ross, Ph.D. Candidate in Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, University of California, Los Angeles
Marmots were the perfect test species for a wildlife adversity index. Xochitl Ortiz RossPsychologists know that childhood trauma, or the experience of harmful or adverse events, can have lasting repercussions on the health and well-being of people well into adulthood. But while the consequences of early adversity have been well researched in humans...