In addition,
they collected faecal samples of the tamarins that contained seeds.
The researchers measured the stress levels of the animals by analysing the stress hormone metabolites (glucocorticoid metabolites GCM) in
the collected faecal samples.
The researchers also
collected faecal samples during times of extreme cold and analysed the concentration of faecal glucocorticoid (fGC) metabolite present.
Not exact matches
Dr Susanne Shultz, the senior author from the School of Earth and Environmental Sciences (SEES) at Manchester, explains: «
Faecal hormone measurements are easy to
collect without disturbing the animals and provide a window into the chronic stress animals are experiencing.
The virus was found when Bas Dutilh of Radboud University Medical Center in Nijmegen, the Netherlands, and colleagues were trawling through data from
faecal samples
collected for a 2010 study looking at the microbial gut communities of twins.
Faecal samples were
collected from children newly diagnosed with type 1 diabetes and controls.
The team used genetic information
collected on field from tiger
faecal samples, to understand how landscape features — like roads and agriculture — impact tiger movement in Central India, a global high priority tiger conservation landscape.