About the project

Refuges around urban areas may form due to predators perceiving humans as risky. Prey animals, such as elk, may take advantage of these predator-free refuges. However, human activities may cause stress in animals, which results in a release of glucocorticoids within the individual. Long term exposure to glucocorticoids may result in a loss of fitness. Therefore, as part of an undergraduate project, I examined how human disturbance was related to glucococorticoids (hair cortisol and fecal corticosterone) in elk of Jasper National Park and Banff National Park. 

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