Integrating animal temperament within ecology and evolution

D Réale, SM Reader, D Sol, PT McDougall… - Biological …, 2007‏ - Wiley Online Library
Temperament describes the idea that individual behavioural differences are repeatable over
time and across situations. This common phenomenon covers numerous traits, such as …

Behavioral syndromes: an ecological and evolutionary overview

A Sih, A Bell, JC Johnson - Trends in ecology & evolution, 2004‏ - cell.com
Recent studies suggest that populations and species often exhibit behavioral syndromes;
that is, suites of correlated behaviors across situations. An example is an aggression …

Fitness consequences of personality: a meta-analysis

BR Smith, DT Blumstein - Behavioral Ecology, 2008‏ - academic.oup.com
The study of nonhuman personality capitalizes on the fact that individuals of many species
behave in predictable, variable, and quantifiable ways. Although a few empirical studies …

Cognitive culture: theoretical and empirical insights into social learning strategies

L Rendell, L Fogarty, WJE Hoppitt, TJH Morgan… - Trends in cognitive …, 2011‏ - cell.com
Research into social learning (learning from others) has expanded significantly in recent
years, not least because of productive interactions between theoretical and empirical …

Behavioural syndromes in fishes: a review with implications for ecology and fisheries management

JL Conrad, KL Weinersmith, T Brodin… - Journal of fish …, 2011‏ - Wiley Online Library
This review examines the contribution of research on fishes to the growing field of
behavioural syndromes. Current knowledge of behavioural syndromes in fishes is reviewed …

[كتاب][B] Cooperation among animals: an evolutionary perspective

LA Dugatkin - 1997‏ - books.google.com
Despite the depiction of nature" red in tooth and claw", cooperation is actually widespread in
the animal kingdom. Various types of cooperative behaviors have been documented in …

Fitness consequences of avian personalities in a fluctuating environment

NJ Dingemanse, C Both, PJ Drent… - Proceedings of the …, 2004‏ - royalsocietypublishing.org
Individual animals differ in the way they cope with challenges in their environment,
comparable with variation in human personalities. The proximate basis of variation in …

Evolutionary and ecological approaches to the study of personality

D Réale, NJ Dingemanse… - … Transactions of the …, 2010‏ - royalsocietypublishing.org
This introduction to the themed issue on Evolutionary and ecological approaches to the
study of personality provides an overview of conceptual, theoretical and methodological …

Natural selection and animal personality

NJ Dingemanse, D Réale - Behaviour, 2005‏ - JSTOR
Recent progress has been made on the study of personality in animals, both from a
mechanistic and a functional perspective. While we start knowing more about the proximal …

An explanatory framework for adaptive personality differences

M Wolf, FJ Weissing - … of the Royal Society B: Biological …, 2010‏ - royalsocietypublishing.org
We develop a conceptual framework for the understanding of animal personalities in terms
of adaptive evolution. We focus on two basic questions. First, why do behavioural types …