Description: Most physiological and behavioral mechanisms that comprise the stress response come from laboratory experiments using domesticated animals. This book summarizes work to understand stress in natural contexts. It places modern stress research into an evolutionary context and provides predictions on how wild animals might cope with human-altered habitats.
Review Quotes: "This is a superb manuscript by an outstanding pair of scholars that provides valuable insights into the 'natural world' and a good integration of information from many domains of physiology, neuroscience, behavioral neurobiology and animal behavior."
--Bruce McEwen, Alfred E. Mirsky Professor and Head of the Harold and Margaret Milliken Hatch Laboratory of Neuroendocrinology, The Rockefeller University
Cope forces the reader to redefine what 'living' means for creatures that are living at the
margins of life... I can certainly recommend Tempests, Poxes, Predators, and People to everyone preparing for the future in our complex world, so full of interdependent species.
--PsycCRITIQUES