Personality in captivity reflects personality in the wild

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An empiricist guide to animal personality variation in ecology and evolution (2014, methodology): “Pairs nesting in solitary nests were better at finding experimental foraging patches, and were better at adjusting parental care to experimentally enlarged broods than birds following a more colonial nesting strategy (Mariette and Griffith, 2013).”
Personality predicts behavioral flexibility in a fluctuating, natural environment (2014, background): “Only novel environment activity predicted wild behavior (Herborn et al. 2010).”
The Decision Making Individual Differences Inventory and guidelines for the study of individual differences in judgment and decision-making research (2011, background): “Nevertheless individual differences continue to be widely used as explanatory variables, in everything from risk aversion in economics (Weber, 2001) to animal personality in biology (e.g., Herborn et al., 2010).”