Domestic chickens are members of an order, Aves, which has been the focus of a revolution
in our understanding of neuroanatomical, cognitive, and social complexity. At least some …

The pace-of-life syndrome (POLS) hypothesis specifies that closely related species or
populations experiencing different ecological conditions should differ in a suite of metabolic …

Temperament describes the idea that individual behavioural differences are repeatable over
time and across situations. This common phenomenon covers numerous traits, such as …

This article reviews the literature on sensory processing sensitivity (SPS) in light of growing
evidence from evolutionary biology that many personality differences in nonhuman species …

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

A co** style (also termed behavioural syndrome or personality) is defined as a correlated
set of individual behavioural and physiological characteristics that is consistent over time …

Recent studies of animal personality have focused on its proximate causation and its
ecological and evolutionary significance, but have mostly ignored questions about its …

Behavioural traits are characterized by their labile expression: behavioural responses can,
in principle, be up-and down-regulated in response to moment-to-moment changes in …

It is now well established that individuals can differ consistently in their average levels of
behaviour across different contexts. There have recently been calls to apply the same …

In recent years evidence has been accumulating that personalities are not only found in
humans but also in a wide range of other animal species,,,,,,. Individuals differ consistently in …