Boldness in animal personality studies is measured using a range of different behavioural
assays, including responses to novel objects, novel environments and threatening stimuli …

Natural selection can generate correlated suites of phenotypic traits by acting independently
on physiological and behavioural characters or on mechanisms that exert pleiotropic …

Boldness, a measure of an individual's propensity for taking risks, is an important
determinant of fitness but is not necessarily a fixed trait. Dependent upon an individual's …

There is a growing interest in animal personality because individual variation is the
substrate of the evolutionary process. Despite revelations that personality traits affect key …

The process of dispersal is determined by the interaction of individual (intrinsic) traits and
environmental (extrinsic) factors. Although many studies address and quantify dispersal, few …

Threespine stickleback were used to examine phenotypic plasticity of telencephala in
relation to inferred ecology. Fish from derived, allopatric, freshwater populations were …

There is much interest in studying animal personalities but considerable debate as to how to
define and evaluate them. We assessed the utility of one proposed framework while …

Variation among individuals in the expression of behaviors and associations of behaviors in
different contexts can lead to the maintenance of behavioral polymorphisms. Individual …

Social interactions impact growth rate of animals in different ways such as direct or indirect
competition for food and/or territories. In this study, behaviour of glass eels and elvers was …

The effect of rearing environment on the behaviour of young-of-the-year pikeperch (Sander
lucioperca) bred at three different production facilities was investigated. Two groups were …