Do any other animals, beside human, show similar signs of stress?

Question

Do any other animals, beside human, show similar signs of stress?

Answer 1

Primates, like chimpanzees and baboons, show nearly all of the same stress related health issues that humans do.  We're all highly intelligent, socially active, with (relatively) low problems of predation, so we have time to think of other things.  In time they also end up with stressed out lives.

Answer 2

yes, the pet store and vet have meds for pets that stressed  

Answer 3

All animals will show signs of stress.

Answer 4

Rats do. When they get too stressed or crowded, they eat each other.

Answer 5

Of course. Even animals with the smallest of brains. Fish, for example. If you do something as small as remove their favorite plant from their tank, they can get stressed enough to catch diseases and die!

If I lock my dog outside, my cat will sit and cry for her.

Answer 6

Hi WC,

Animals can be shown to suffer from stress caused, for example, by overcrowding. If stressed too much, lions develop hypertrophy of the adrenal glands. Some animals, usually those preyed upon by others, are naturally anxious. Grazing animals of the savannah or grasslands are much more jumpy and prepared for flight than elephants or predators such as lions. One can demonstrate differing degrees of anxiety in experimental mice strains, which can be bred for high or low anxiety levels.

Mice and rats, as well as higher vertebrates, are used in experimental models of anxiety, especially for drug development. Thus, it is possible to cause stress and anxiety states in animals. Veterinary surgeons also recognize anxiety and depressive states among pets, which often reflect the attitudes of their owners.