'Friends and family' lower long-term stress in orphaned elephants, study finds.
"I wanted to follow that up and look at what happens physiologically for these orphans," said Dr Parker.
"You get to be around elephants all day, but you have to have your binoculars and really keep your eye on their back ends and their tails to make sure you got the right individual," she explained. A key finding that puzzled the scientists was that there was little difference between orphans and non-orphans in terms of signs of long-term stress.
That resilience appeared to be directly linked to social support from other elephants; those animals with more of similarly aged companions in their group had significantly lower stress hormone levels than others.The study also highlighted some some strange parallels between humans and elephants - at least in terms of these physiological signs of stress.
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