The successful establishment and expansion of invasive species may be linked to the
behavior and dispersal tendency of individuals within an introduced population. To test the …

Personality traits are becoming increasingly important in explaining adaptive individual
differences in animal behaviour and probably represent a leading edge of the evolutionary …

Behavioral responses to novel situations often vary and can belong to a suite of correlated
behaviors. Characteristic behaviors of different personality types (eg stress coping styles) …

We examined whether variation in group exploratory behavior was linked with variation in
personality traits (boldness, activity, and sociability) in a population of feral guppies (Poecilia …

A common method to assess behavioral types in personality research involves the use of a
single emergence test (employed by researchers working on fish, avian, mammal …

The grouping behaviour of fish is a widespread phenomenon of high biological significance
but little is known as to how consistent individual behavioural differences may affect group …

Animals are known to exhibit 'personality'; that is, individual differences in behaviour that are
consistent across time and/or situations. One axis of personality of particular importance for …

Recently, there has been increasing interest in behavioral syndrome research across a
range of taxa. Behavioral syndromes are suites of correlated behaviors that are expressed …

Boldness is the propensity of an animal to engage in risky behavior. Many variations of
novel-object or novel-environment tests have been used to quantify the boldness of animals …

Two temperament traits, tendency to explore and activity level, were measured in a tropical
poeciliid fish, the Panamanian bishop Brachyrhaphis episcopi. Open‐field arena tests were …