An empiricist guide to animal personality variation in ecology and evolution
By Sasha R. X. Dall, Simon C. Griffith. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 2014
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The study of animal personality variation promises to provide significant new insight into the way that behaviour evolves in animals, along with its ecological and evolutionary influences. We strongly advocate more empirical work in this exciting and rapidly expanding research area, but hope that new studies adopt a more hypothesis-driven and/or experimental approach than seems to be usual at the moment. Here we outline what we feel is “good practice” to the many empiricists that are keen on pursuing work in this field. We highlight the substantial body of theoretical work that exists for providing well-reasoned hypotheses, which new empirical studies should be designed to test. Furthermore, using a brief review of existing work on the behavioural ecology of animal personality variation in the zebra finch - one of the more widely used model systems in this field - we stress the importance of understanding the ecology of the chosen study animal, and the problems that are likely to arise by neglecting to identify or account for the structure of behavioural variation that is often likely to occur.
Subfields: Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Genetics
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- Revisiting the open-field test: what does it really tell us about animal personality? (2017, background): “Experimental research has established that individuals within populations consistently vary in behavioural traits such as shyness, neophobia, exploration, aggressiveness and sociability (Dall & Griffith, 2014; R eale, Reader, Sol, McDougall, & Dingemanse, 2007; Sih, Bell, & Johnson, 2004).”
- Glucocorticoid-Mediated Phenotypes in Vertebrates : Multilevel Variation and Evolution (2016, background): “Because these topics have been discussed in detail elsewhere (Biro, 2012; Dall & Griffith, 2014; Dingemanse & Dochtermann, 2013; Lema & Kitano, 2013; Réale, Dingemanse, Kazem, & Wright, 2010), here we briefly introduce these themes and then focus on GCbehavior relationships in the context of…”
- Boldness towards novel objects predicts predator inspection in wild vervet monkeys (2017, background): “Interindividual behavioural variation that is stable over time, consistent across contexts and related to fitness outcomes has been documented in a number of taxa (Dall & Griffith, 2014; R eale, Reader, Sol, McDougall, & Dingemanse, 2007; Sih & Bell, 2008; Smith & Blumstein, 2008).”