Personality and fecal glucocorticoid metabolite concentrations are associated with post-release fitness in translocated swift foxes (Vulpes velox)
Nucharin Songsasen
Conservation translocations can promote species recovery but are prone to failure due to low post-release survival. Mounting evidence suggests that intrinsic attributes like personality and stress physiology can impact how individuals cope with translocation and acclimatize to the release site. Here, we investigated relationships among personality, biomarkers of stress, post-release movement, and survival using a recent swift fox (Vulpes velox) reintroduction program as a case study. We scored p