Animals constantly need to cope with changes in their environment. Coping with changes in
cues that are associated with the location and abundance of food is essential for being able …

One possibility for why individual differences in behavioral plasticity are frequently
associated with differences in personality might be that variation in personality is functionally …

Animals show consistent individual differences in behaviour across time and/or contexts.
Recently, it has been suggested that proactive personality types might also exhibit fast …

Learning is a change in state resulting from new experiences enabling behavioural
responses to be adjusted in alignment with external cues. Individuals differ in the speed and …

Living in challenging environments can influence the behavior of animals in a number of
ways. For instance, populations of prey fish that experience frequent, nonlethal interactions …

Highlights•Individuals vary in learning ability, and personality may explain why this
is.•Aggression and latency to emerge were repeatable personality traits in crickets.•Crickets …

It is now well established that individuals can differ consistently in their average levels of
behaviour across different contexts. There have recently been calls to apply the same …

Cognitive bias is defined as the influence of emotions on cognitive processes. The concept
of the cognitive judgement bias has its origins in human psychology but has been applied to …

In a number of animal species, individuals differ in their ability to solve cognitive tasks.
However, the mechanisms underlying this variability remain unclear. It has been proposed …

Cognition is fundamental to animals' lives and an important source of phenotypic variation.
Nevertheless, research on individual variation in animal cognition is still limited. Further …