Consistent individual differences in the tendency to accept risk have been demonstrated in
invertebrates, fish, birds, and mammals, including humans. These individual differences …

As is obvious from the papers in this symposium, the field of risk sensitivity is a chimera. Risk
sensitivity applies to a wide diversity of phenomena: from foraging, to reproduction, to habitat …

Heterogeneity in the environment favours foragers that are flexible (phenotypically plastic).
However, consistent individual differences in behaviour (personality), such as in risk‐taking …

Studies of risk-sensitive foraging have so far focused only on the effect of food demand on
choice of feeding site. We suggest that competition is likely to be another factor influencing …

There is substantial evidence that an animal's current energy budget affects its preference
for food patches that provide a constant reward relative to patches that provide a variable …

To study the fitness effects of individual variation in cognitive traits, it is paramount to
understand whether traits such as personality and physiological stress influence cognitive …

Animal personalities, defined as consistent and correlated individual differences in
behavioral traits, are suggested to be common in the animal kingdom and can have …

Focuses on risk sensitivity, the area of foraging that concerns how and why animals respond
to variability in food sources. The authors' intention is to show how optimality modeling and …

One of the contemporary challenges of the behavioral syndromes literature is to identify how
individual variation in behavior is determined, and whether this variation impacts ecological …

Predation and predation risk can exert strong influences on the behavior of prey species.
However, risk avoidance behaviors may vary among populations of the same species. We …