Dispersal is one of the most fundamental components of ecology, and affects processes as
diverse as population growth, metapopulation dynamics, gene flow and adaptation …

Highlights•Researchers use neophobia tests for many purposes, but produce conflicting
results.•Attention to cognitive mechanisms and ecological context reveals testing issues.•We …

Novel or changing environments expose animals to diverse stressors that likely require
coordinated hormonal and behavioral adaptations. Predicted adaptations to urban …

Fluctuations in abiotic and biotic conditions exist in almost all habitats (Dunlap, Loros, &
DeCoursey, 2004; Stevenson et al., 2015). Some fluctuations like the alternation between …

Although personality has been defined as a suite of correlated behaviours, most studies of
animal personality actually consider correlations between a few traits. We examined the …

Personality in animal behaviour describes the observation that behavioural differences
between individuals are consistent over time and context. Studies of group-living animals …

Food uncertainty has the effect of invigorating food-related responses. Psychologists have
noted that mammals and birds respond more to a conditioned stimulus that unreliably …

In evolutionary and behavioural ecology, increasing attention is being paid to the fact that
functionally distinct behaviours are often not independent from each other. Such …

The quantity and quality of social relationships, as captured by social network analysis, can
have major fitness consequences. Various studies have shown that individual differences in …

Animal 'personality'describes consistent individual differences in suites of behaviors, a
phenomenon exhibited in diverse animal taxa and shown to be under natural and sexual …