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Showing 1 to 16 of 16 for “"animal personality"”.
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Animal personality and the social context: the role of boldness and sociability variation in schooling fish
Throughout the animal kingdom, individuals often differ consistently from one another in how they cope with their environment. In particular, consistent behavioural variation, known as animal personality, is a substantial driver of a range of important ecological and evolutionary processes. As most …
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Does personality affect competition, social organization, and fitness? a study using a small social mammal, Octodon degus
Animal personality represents consistent variation among individual behaviors that are repeatable across time and contexts. Recent research in behavioral ecology has revealed that animal personality influences ecological and evolutionary processes, and a growing number of studies demonstrate that …
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Behavioral type - environment correlations in three-spined stickleback
… individual differences in behavior, so called animal personality, influences differences in how individuals within populations interact with their environment. The specific aim of the work reported herein was to understand how non-random associations between the behavioral phenotype of …
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Personality in Stomatopod Crustaceans
… at the individual level, referred to as animal personality. Fifteen individual <em>Neogonodactylus oerstedii</em> were tested in three scenarios designed to measure potential differences in behaviors: 1) exploration of a novel environment, 2) response to and recovery from a startling …
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Molecular bases of scouting behavior in honey bees
… also supports the scouting tendency as an “animal personality” and provides a molecular standpoint for studying the evolution of personality.
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Effects of environmental enrichment on personality traits in juvenile Arctic charr (Salvelinus alpinus) : interplay with brain morphology, growth performance and implication for welfare
… although there is a growing interest regarding animal welfare in food production systems. Animal personality has been reported in a wide range of species across the animal kingdom, including fish, and its adaptive importance has become a central subject in diverse disciplines ranging from …
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Modelling and Analysis of Individual Animal Movement
… their lifespans. Understanding how and why animals move through and interact with their environment is therefore key in understanding some of the most open and pressing questions in science; from the effects of climate and environmental change on local species, to preventing the spread of …
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Behavioral syndromes and their effect on dispersal in Notonecta irrorata
… or behavioral syndromes, are evidence for personality in animals and could potentially play a role in dispersal propensity. This research examined whether or not a behavioral syndrome exists in Notonecta irrorata and whether or not these levels of behavior 1) influenced dispersal, 2) were …
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Predictability in an unpredictable world: Situating zebra finch (Taeniopygia guttata) personality in the contexts of mate choice and parental care
Individual differences in behavior, and animal personality, are known to influence social interactions, such as mate choice and parental care. However, most studies concentrate on how personality traits predict behavior in one domain, such as courtship, rather than connecting personality traits to …
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Social context shapes individual variation in behavior, learning, and neural gene expression in a swordtail fish
The diverse challenges associated with sociality can be powerful shapers of behavior, yet how sociality affects individual variation in behavior, cognition, and its neural underpinnings is not well understood. Here, we characterized cognitive and behavioral variation as a function of social context …
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Exploring domestic rabbit (<i>Oryctolagus cuniculus</i>) personality utilising behaviour coding, behaviour testing and a novel behaviour rating tool
… purpose of the study was to attempt to identify personality traits in domestic rabbits (<i>Oryctolagus cuniculus</i>) and to evaluate a range of tools, suitable for use in a shelter setting, that can be used to measure personality traits. A literature review highlighted limited evaluation of …
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Testing models of the adaptive evolution of consistent individual differences in behavior using sticklebacks
… differences consider solitary foraging animals, however many animals forage in groups where the presence of conspecifics competitors may alter the costs and benefits of foraging behavior. Therefore all individuals were tested both while alone, and while in a group. In support of the …
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Establishing a Link Between Personality and Social Rank in a Group of Bottlenose Dolphins (<i>Tursiops truncatus</i>)
… truncatus</em>) have been documented to possess personality traits that remain consistent over time (Highfill & Kuczaj, 2007) and across contexts (Kuczaj, Highfill, & Byerly, 2012). Such individual differences are thought to play an important role in various social contexts such as hierarchical …
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Behavioral Heterogeneity and Disease Dynamics in House Finches (Haemorhous mexicanus)
… varies in the context of disease. Variation in animal behavior can impact both transmission and the extent of a host's pathogen acquisition, and thus can have important consequences for infectious disease dynamics. Additionally, in this world of rapid urbanization where landscapes and wildlife …
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Dryland state transitions, trophic interactions, and the restoration of a keystone species
Submission original under an indefinite embargo labeled 'Open Access'. The submission was exported from vireo on 2023-09-01 without embargo terms