'Stress and the city': Urban birds keep cool

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Juvenile European blackbird. Credit: Ingo Teich Max Planck Institute for Ornithology
Juvenile European blackbird. Credit: Ingo Teich / Max Planck Institute for Ornithology

Animals colonizing cities are exposed to many novel and potentially stressful situations. Chronic stress, however, can cause deleterious effects. Hence, wild animals would suffer from city life unless they adjusted their stress response to the conditions in a city.


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