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Wiki Education assignment: Environmental physiology

This article was the subject of a Wiki Education Foundation-supported course assignment, between 23 August 2023 and 6 December 2023. Further details are available on the course page. Student editor(s): Daniazevedo02 (article contribs). Peer reviewers: Cclay10, Tlaforge.

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Hello! I am planning to add a contribution on the responses to stress in spotted hyenas to this article for my Advanced Evolution class. This contribution will cover behavioral and hormonal responses to social, environmental, and anthropogenic stressors in spotted hyenas. I will be adding this to the behavior section. Directedbyayoedebiri (talk) 19:39, 11 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Sounds overly technical to me. Mariomassone (talk) 09:59, 12 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Innovative-solving problems capability in carnivore mammals

Social predators (Such as spotted hyena and lion) has been found to be better than no social predators (Such as leopard and tiger) at solving problems that require the use of innovation.

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.anbehav.2016.01.013

https://www.cbs.umn.edu/sites/cbs.umn.edu/files/migrated-files/downloads/AnimalBehavior.pdf

LeandroPucha (talk) 19:44, 8 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]