Tempests, Poxes, Predators, and People: Stress in Wild Animals and How They CopeAlthough scientists have discovered many fundamental physiological and behavioral mechanisms that comprise the stress response, most of current knowledge is based on laboratory experiments using domesticated or captive animals. Scientists are only beginning, however, to understand how stress impacts wild animals by studying the nature of the stressful stimuli that animals in their natural environments have adapted to for survival, and what the