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Dforestation is affecting animals' stress levels. Just like humans, it seems, animals are feeling the mental effects of climate change and deforestation. 

Humans aren’t the only ones feeling anxiety about environmental destruction. As forests shrink, small mammals are also feeling stressed, and we can tell by their fur. A team of scientists collected fur samples from 106 small rodents and marsupials in six forest fragments in the Atlantic Forest of Paraguay. After grinding each fur sample into […]

Deforestation ‘stressing animals out’, scientists warn Harry Cockburn © Provided by The Independent Some people may be panicking about our own species’ rampant destruction of the natural world, but we are not the only ones concerned. The animals directly impacted by deforestation appear to be expressing more hormones associated with stress, according to bleak new research by American scientists. Researchers who took samples of hormones which accumulate in fur found rodents and marsupials living in smaller remaining patches of South America’s Atlantic Forest are under...

 E-Mail IMAGE: A mouse opossum (Gracilinanus agilis) from a deforested area of the Atlantic Forest, eastern Paraguay. view more  Credit: © Noé U. de la Sancha, Field Museum Lots of us are feeling pretty anxious about the destruction of the natural world. It turns out, humans aren't the only ones stressing out--by analyzing hormones that accumulate in fur, researchers found that rodents and marsupials living in smaller patches of South America's Atlantic Forest are under more stress than ones living in more intact forests. "We suspected that organisms in deforested areas would show...