How wild animals cope with stress—from overeating to sleepless nights

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We’re not the only animals that suffer anxiety. From lizards to song sparrows, challenging situations can have long-lasting impacts on species

If some bee species don't get enough sleep, they'll perform their

, the bee equivalent of GPS,"with a less precise direction component," Klein says via email, giving their spectators less helpful information on where to find food., a fish ecologist at Oregon State University, stops short of saying other animals react to stress like we do. “That’s a bit too anthropomorphic for me,” Heppell says via email. “But I might say that other animals have somewhat analogous responses,” for example, when stressful events experienced by parents “can affect performance of their offspring.” In humans, that concept is called generational trauma.

appear to pass trauma down to their babies, though the impacts are different among males and females., scientists showed that sons of stickleback fathers who had been exposed to predators were risk takers, but the trauma had no effect on daughters. Mothers exposed to predators had anxious offspring of both sexes—but why remains unknown.The mere presence of predators can make animals anxious.

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