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Wild animals can experience trauma and adversity too ? as ecologists, we came up with an index to track how
cumulative adversity indexearly life adversitybiodiversity lossRocky Mountain Biological LaboratoryColoradoMarmota flaviventris
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New research finds that marmots who experience adversity early in life have a lesser chance of survival.
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