Animal personality*

Personality*

• Consistent individual behavioural variation

• Five broad categories:

  • Boldness

  • Exploration

  • Activity

  • Aggression

  • Sociability

Personality categories:*

• Boldness

• Exploration

• Activity

• Aggression

• Sociability

Among-individual variation*

Within-individual variation*

personality continuums*

• Boldness ←→ Shyness

• Passive ←→

Quantifying personality*

Behavioural syndromes*

• a suit of correlated behaviours reflecting between individual consistency in behaviour across two or more contexts

• Can be exhibited by a population

• Within a behavioural syndrome, individuals have a behavioural type (personality)…

• Animals aren’t able to always show the perfect behaviour for every context. Instead there are certain frames within which their behaviour can vary or different behaviours are linked together

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Adaptation and behavioural syndromes*

How do behavioural syndromes arise?*

How does animal personality develop?*

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