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Sapolsky's Why Zebra’s Don’t Get Ulcers: a charming tour of stress science
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Why Zebras Don’t Get Ulcers, by Robert M Sapolsky, 10
publisher
Times Books
year
2004
page
10 (3rd ed edition)
The full quote/excerpt
If you’re a zebra being chased by that lion, you have to run for it. For us vertebrates, the core of the stress-response is built around the fact that your muscles are going to work like crazy.
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