{"id":89546,"date":"2025-07-24T20:41:24","date_gmt":"2025-07-24T20:41:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/89546\/"},"modified":"2025-07-24T20:41:24","modified_gmt":"2025-07-24T20:41:24","slug":"leadership-also-increases-stress-in-animals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/89546\/","title":{"rendered":"Leadership also increases stress in animals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>    <img src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/c0bf28ed57e63055fa54c81fc1d97be7544f381d-89720077.jpg\" width=\"1400\" height=\"1050\" alt=\"The role of leader increases stress in animals too\" loading=\"eager\" decoding=\"sync\" fetchpriority=\"high\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                The role of leader increases stress in animals too            <\/p>\n<p>            Keystone-SDA        <\/p>\n<p>            Listen to the article        <\/p>\n<p>            Listening the article        <\/p>\n<p>                Toggle language selector            <\/p>\n<ul class=\"read-aloud\/track-selector__options\">\n<li>\n<p>                            English (US)                        <\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>                            English (British)                        <\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>            Generated with artificial intelligence.        <\/p>\n<p>        A study conducted at the University of Zurich has shown that when animals make decisions for their group, their hearts beat faster.\n<\/p>\n<p>        This content was published on    <\/p>\n<p>        July 23, 2025 &#8211; 10:22\n<\/p>\n<p>This is particularly the case when members of the group do not agree on how to proceed or when individuals fail in their attempts to lead the group, Damien Farine, one of the researchers at the University of Zurich and author of the study, published on Tuesday in the journal Current Biology, told the Keystone-SDA news agency.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.swissinfo.ch\/eng\/latest-news\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>+Get the most important news from Switzerland in your inbox<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>To carry out their research, the team from the University of Zurich implanted heart rate monitors in a group of vulturine guinea fowl from East Africa. They specifically studied the direction in which the animals moved.<\/p>\n<p>The guinea fowl that wanted to change direction had a faster heart rate. Those that tried to initiate a change of direction but failed showed particularly high stress symptoms.<\/p>\n<p>Humans too<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis species of bird is well suited to such a study because it is logistically easy to observe,\u201d explained Farine. What\u2019s more, they live in large groups with complex social structures. \u201cWe assume, however, that our results are likely to apply to most species living in groups,\u201d she added.<\/p>\n<p>\n    More<\/p>\n<p>    <img src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/FelineFelons.png\" width=\"544\" height=\"972\" alt=\"Cat in tree\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"auto\"\/><\/p>\n<p>        More    <\/p>\n<p>        Feline felons: The issue with Switzerland\u2019s free-roaming cats    <\/p>\n<p class=\"teaser-wide-card__excerpt\">\n<p>                        This content was published on                    <\/p>\n<p>                        Jun 5, 2025                    <\/p>\n<p>                Cats kill millions of birds, frogs and other animals every year in Switzerland.            <\/p>\n<p>    <a class=\"teaser-wide-card__link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.swissinfo.ch\/eng\/swiss-oddities\/the-issue-with-switzerlands-free-roaming-cats\/89464517\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><\/p>\n<p>            Read more: Feline felons: The issue with Switzerland\u2019s free-roaming cats<br \/>\n    <\/a><\/p>\n<p>According to the researcher, all social animals face similar challenges: they have to make group decisions, maintain cohesion and at the same time assert their own needs, such as eating when others want to rest. This also applies to humans, according to Farine. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe go through the same processes every day, for example when we walk with other people and make decisions \u2013 often unconsciously \u2013 about which way to go.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Adapted from French by DeepL\/ac<\/p>\n<p>                How we work            <\/p>\n<p>We select the most relevant news for an international audience and use automatic translation tools to translate them into English. A journalist then reviews the translation for clarity and accuracy before publication.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Providing you with automatically translated news gives us the time to write more in-depth articles. 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