In animals, individual differences in learning ability are common and are in part explained by
genetic differences, developmental conditions and by general experience. Yet, not all …

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 …

Highlights•Both social and personal information use are personality related.•Faster
explorers tend to sample novel options instead of using personal information.•The use of …

Associative learning is essential for resource acquisition, predator avoidance and
reproduction in a wide diversity of species, and is therefore a key target for evolutionary and …

One aspect of animal personality that has been well described in captivity, but received only
little attention in studies in the wild, is that personality types may vary in their behavioural …

The evolution and maintenance of consistent individual differences, so called animal
personalities, have attracted much research interest over the past decades. Variation along …

Animal personality, defined as consistent individual differences across context and time, has
attracted much recent research interest in the study of animal behaviour. More recently, this …

Behaviours are the result of the interaction between genetic factors, past experiences, and
labile environmental and social influences. Usually, the behavioural variability of an …

Competitive ability is a major determinant of fitness, but why individuals vary so much in their
competitiveness remains only partially understood. One increasingly prevalent view is that …

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 …