Highlights•Animal personality traits tend to be stable within life stages but not across.•
Metamorphosis and/or sexual maturation are important for personality development.• …

Sensory systems allow animals to detect and respond to stimuli in their environment and
underlie all behaviour. However, human induced pollution is increasingly interfering with the …

Animal personality refers to individual behavioral and physiological differences that are
consistent over time and across context. Recently, the fish personality has gained increasing …

Understanding the linkage between behavioral types and dispersal tendency has become a
pressing issue in light of global change and biological invasions. Here, we explore whether …

Within populations, some individuals tend to exhibit a bold or shy social behavior phenotype
relative to the mean. The neural underpinnings of these differing phenotypes–also …

Highlights•Maternal stress during pregnancy can affect offspring development.•We
manipulated exposure of pregnant mosquitofish to a predatory bass model.•Maternal stress …

The arrival of novel predators can trigger trophic cascades driven by shifts in prey numbers.
Predators also elicit behavioral change in prey populations, via phenotypic plasticity and/or …

Personality has been identified in a range of animal taxa during the last few decades, with
important ecological and evolutionary implications. Investigating the effects of environmental …

Agricultural and urban storm water runoffs can introduce chemicals of emerging concern
(CECs) into waterways. These chemicals can be continually released, persist, or even …

Making fast and accurate group decisions under uncertain and risky conditions is a
fundamental problem for groups. Currently, there is little empirical evidence of how natural …