Considerable interindividual variation in behaviour, including learning ability and
personality, exists within populations. Recent research has suggested that these two traits …

A fundamental question in behavioural and evolutionary ecology is to what degree
individual phenotypic traits are variable over time and across ecological contexts and …

Highlights•We test the effects of personality on the use of social information by fish.•Bolder
guppies use social information to infer potential patch depletion.•Highly social guppies …

Recent studies on consistent individual differences in behavioural tendencies (animal
personality) raised the question of whether individual differences in cognitive abilities can be …

Individual differences in animal behaviour have been attracting the interest of researchers at
least from the time of Darwin (Slater 1981; Caro & Bateson 1986; Clark & Ehlinger 1987; …

Highlights•We studied individual variation in the behaviour of wild pike cichlid
predators.•Predators were repeatedly presented with prey stimuli and no-prey …

Personality traits, such as exploration–avoidance, are expected to be adaptive in a given
context (eg low-risk environment) but to be maladaptive in others (eg high-risk environment) …

In shaping how individuals explore their environment and interact with others, personality
may mediate both individual and social learning. Yet increasing evidence indicates that …

Individuals of the same population differ in their cognitive abilities, that is, in their capacity to
acquire, process, store and act on information from the environment. The question of …

This study examined whether variation in the strength and direction of lateralization in a
detour task was linked with variation in three common personality measurements: boldness …