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social buffering

Researchers attaching a heart rate monitor to a southern Pacific rattlesnake (Crotalus helleri).
July 10, 2023
CSUSB professor part of new study that shows rattlesnakes stress less with companions

Bree Putman, CSUSB assistant professor of biology, is co-author of the study, which is the first time “social buffering” has been documented in reptiles.