Understanding the ways in which individuals cope with threats, respond to challenges, make
use of opportunities and mediate the harmful effects of their surroundings is important for …

For the past decade, the study of personality has become a topic on the frontier of behavioral
ecology. However, most studies have focused on exploring inter-individual behavioral …

Highlights•We examined the development of two personality traits, boldness and docility, in
yellow-bellied marmots.•Boldness was not a personality trait in juveniles, but was in …

Social bonds enhance fitness in many group-living animals, generating interest in the
processes that create individual variation in sociality. Previous work on female baboons …

Animals typically display among-individual differences in behavior that are consistent over
time (ie, personality). These differences are often triggered by variable individual responses …

Consistent between‐individual differences in movement are widely recognised across taxa.
In addition, foraging plasticity at the within‐individual level suggests a behavioural …

Highlights•We tested the effect of male density* female age on female mate choice in field
crickets.•We measured female choosiness as the time spent near a low-quality …

Sexual signals may be acquired or lost over evolutionary time, and are tempered in their
exaggeration by natural selection. In the Pacific field cricket, Teleogryllus oceanicus, a …

Early juvenile environments influence trait expression in complex and often nonintuitive
ways. Although the breadth of these effects is well recognized, researchers generally focus …

Highlights•We examined the interaction of predator and prey behavioural types.•We found
that prey fitness depends on predator behavioural type and vice versa.•Models with …