Is fearfulness a trait that can be measured with behavioural tests? A validation of four fear tests for Japanese quail

By K. Miller, J. Garner, J. Mench. 2006

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Subfields: Animal Science and Zoology, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Small Animals

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Ungulate flight responses to human disturbance: a review and meta-analysis. (2008, background): “Flight initiation distance (FID), the distance between the predator and prey when the prey flees, and other distance metrics are accurate indices of fear in animals (Miller et al., 2006) and are useful in the assessment of an animal’s welfare state (Dwyer, 2004).”
An integrative and functional framework for the study of animal emotion and mood (2010, background): “in terms of ‘fearfulness’), but disagreement is common (e.g. Ramos & Mormede 1998; Miller et al. 2006; Forkman et al. 2007) and behavioural and physiological responses often vary considerably across tests which are all ostensibly designed to measure fear (e.”
Reliability and inter-test relationship of tests for on-farm assessment of dairy cows’ relationship to humans (2008, background): “Significant, at least moderate correlation coefficients as well as ‘agreement of factor loadings’ among the putative measures of animals’ relationship to humans were regarded as criteria for convergent validity (Miller et al., 2006; Waiblinger et al., 2006).”
Effects of risk assessment, predator behavior, and habitat on escape behavior in Columbian black-tailed deer (2007, background): “The distance a prey animal flees from an approaching predator before stopping (‘‘distance moved’’: Taylor and Knight 2003a; Figure 1) is commonly used as an indicator of the impact that any one predatory encounter has on an animal and is a reliable measure of fear (Miller et al. 2006).”
Exploring the basis of divergent selection for ‘temperament’ in domestic sheep (2008, background): “45 or higher were considered in the interpretation of each factor (Miller et al., 2006).”
Stress, corticosterone responses and avian personalities (2007, background): “The quantification of fear is problematical (Murphy 1978; Miller et al. 2006), but fear is nonetheless widely measured in chickens and quail (Jones 1996).”
Between individual variation in risk-taking behavior and its life history consequences (2012, background): “FID constitutes an important component of behavioral syndromes, as studies have demonstrated links between risk-taking behavior, FID, and sexual behavior (Miller et al. 2006; Møller et al. 2008).”