Correlates of boldness in three-spined sticklebacks (Gasterosteus aculeatus)

By Ashley J. W. Ward, P. Thomas, Paul J. B. Hart, Jens Krause. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology, 2004

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Subfields: Ecology, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics

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Intraspecific food competition in fishes (2006, background): “…found that an individual’s boldness, its willingness to expose itself to risk (Wilson et al. 1994; Wilson 1998), is positively correlated with its competitive ability (three-spined sticklebacks, Gasterosteus aculeatus: Ward et al. 2004a,b; Eurasian perch, Perca fluviatilis: Westerberg et al. 2004).”
Risk-taking behavior predicts aggression and mating success in a fiddler crab (2007, background): “…in the presence of a predator has been shown to correlate to seemingly unrelated behaviors in a growing number of species, including spiders (Riechert and Hedrick 1993), fish (Ward et al. 2004), lizards (Stapley and Keogh 2004), birds (Westerberg et al. 2004), and domestic dogs (Svartberg 2002).”
Boldness is influenced by social context in threespine sticklebacks (Gasterosteus aculeatus) (2007, methodology): “For this reason we predicted that the prey share of a focal fish would be correlated with its behaviour in other contexts when the size group of competitors was low, in accordance with previous findings (Ward et al., 2004), but not when the group size was larger.”
Hastiness, brain size and predation regime affect the performance of wild guppies in a spatial memory task (2008, background): “high exploratory behaviour is correlated with higher learning ability in mice; Matzel et al. 2006) and there is ample evidence that fish can differ in these traits, both within (Wilson et al. 1993; Coleman & Wilson 1998; Fraser et al. 2001; Ward et al. 2004 ) and between populations (Bell 2005; Bro”
Behavioral correlations across activity, mating, exploration, aggression, and antipredator contexts in the European house cricket, Acheta domesticus (2010, background): “For example, boldness has been defined as an individual ’ s tendency to take risks (Ward et al. 2004; Réale et al. 2007) and/or be exploratory in novel contexts (Wilson et al. 1994; Wilson and Stevens 2005).”
Sociality: The Behaviour of Group-Living Animals (2016, background): “Three-spined sticklebacks ( Gasterosteus aculeatus ) prefer to associate with unrelated conspecifi cs that have had a similar recent diet as themselves or that have occupied water with a similar chemical profi le (Ward et al. 2004a , 2005 ).”
Behavioural syndromes differ predictably between 12 populations of three-spined stickleback. (2007, background): “In freshwater fish, individuals with solitary tendencies are indeed relatively explorative and relatively aggressive (e.g. Ward et al. 2004).”
Bolder stickleback fish make faster decisions, but they are not less accurate (2015, background): “…for example, fast BT individuals may experience benefits with respect to resource acquisition if they show greater exploratory tendencies (Nannini et al. 2012) but suffer a higher predation risk because this often leaves them exposed to predator attacks (Huntingford 1976; Ward et al. 2004).”
Individual sociability and choosiness between shoal types (2012, neutral): “Previous studies on shoaling tendency showed that bolder fish tend to shoal less or take a position at the exterior/ front of the shoal relative to cautious individuals (Budaev 1997; Ward et al. 2004; Leblond & Reebs 2006).”
Natural selection and animal personality (2005, result): “…of freshwater fish have found similar results (Magnhagen & Staffan, 2003; Ward et al., 2004; Westerberg et al., 2004) and showed that bold fish grew quicker because of their competitive superiority in direct competition for food (Höjesjö et al., 2002; Ward et al., 2004; Sundström et al., 2004).”
Interspecific variation in fear responses predicts urbanization in birds (2010, background): “Several studies have shown that risk taking is a component of behavioral syndromes because it is correlated with exploratory and aggressive behavior (e.g., van Oers et al. 2004; Ward et al. 2004; Hollander et al. 2008; Garamszegi et al. 2009; Wilson and Godin 2009).”
Personality counts: the effect of boldness on shoal choice in three-spined sticklebacks (2009, background): “Gasterosteus aculeatus, have been recognized for many years (Huntingford 1976) and are known to correlate across contexts ( Ward et al. 2004 ), making this group-living species a particularly useful model system to investigate the effects of behavioural differences on shoal joining preferences.”