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Poultry at high altitudes: Chicken colony at White Mountain Research Station is used for study of the adaptation of animals to climatic stress
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California Agriculture 13(11):8-9.
Published November 01, 1959
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Abstract
Physiological adaptation–the ability to change so as to live more or less normally in a previously unfavorable or stressing environment–is one of the most universal properties of living things. However, the native ability of animals to adjust to variations in their environment has to a large extent been sacrificed in breeding animals for modern high standards of production.