(Diplomates) specialize at the intersection of these two fields. They: Veterinary Science | Research Starters - EBSCO

“What do we do?” Marcus asked, his voice stripped of its usual sardonic edge.

: A common framework for studying natural decision-making involves fighting, fleeing, feeding, and reproduction Categories of Behavior : Instinctual behaviors animals are born with.

In the low, humming light of the Aurora Veterinary Research Station, Dr. Lena Kapoor watched a monitor displaying the erratic heartbeat of a sedated snow leopard. The animal, a three-year-old male named Khari, had been brought in from a reserve after ranchers reported him attacking livestock—behavior so uncharacteristic for a leopard known to avoid human contact that the reserve’s warden had called it “a crisis of the soul.”

“Or it’s trauma,” Lena said quietly. She pulled up Khari’s medical history. Six months ago, a different rancher had shot at a leopard in the same valley—not Khari, but his mate. The female had been found dead three days later, a single bullet in her lung, her cub hidden in a rock crevice nearby. Khari had searched for her for two weeks, the tracking collars showed. Then he had gone silent. And then, the livestock attacks began.