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Baby Stress, Early Death?

Aren’t zebra finch couples cute?

She better just hope he didn’t have too much tension in the nest when he was a baby.

A recent study out of the University of Glasgow looked at the long-term effects of stress hormones on zebra finch chicks. Not surprisingly, they found that a stressful chickhood increases the likelihood of early death for the birds.

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