Individually distinctive behavioral traits, or personalities, contribute to population-level
processes and ecological interactions important in applied wildlife conservation research …

This introduction to the themed issue on Evolutionary and ecological approaches to the
study of personality provides an overview of conceptual, theoretical and methodological …

Novel or changing environments expose animals to diverse stressors that likely require
coordinated hormonal and behavioral adaptations. Predicted adaptations to urban …

Consistent individual behavioural tendencies, termed “personalities”, have been identified in
a wide range of animals. Functional explanations for personality have been proposed, but …

Behavior of wild vertebrate individuals can vary in response to environmental or social
factors. Such within-individual behavioral variation is often mediated by hormonal …

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 …

Labile characters allow individuals to flexibly adjust their phenotype to changes in
environmental conditions. There is growing evidence that individuals can differ both in …

Despite burgeoning interest in consistent individual differences in behaviour (animal
'personality'), the influence of social interactions on the performance of different behavioural …

Recent theoretical work suggests that personality is a component of life history, but links
between personality and either age‐dependent reproductive success or life‐history strategy …

Animals foraging in groups can either search for food themselves (producing) or search for
the food discoveries of other individuals (scrounging). Tactic use in producer–scrounger …