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

Interest in individual differences in animal behavioural plasticities has surged in recent
years, but research in this area has been hampered by semantic confusion as different …

In the past decade, several conceptual papers have linked variation in animal personality to
variation in cognition, and recent years have seen a flood of empirical studies testing this …

For over 50 years, the great tit (Parus major) has been a model species for research in
evolutionary, ecological and behavioural research; in particular, learning and cognition have …

Animal personality and behavioral syndromes can have profound effects on individual
fitness. Consequently, there is growing recognition that knowledge of these phenomena …

Patterns of individual differences in cognition have been studied empirically and
systematically in the last decade, but causes and consequences of this variation are still …

Understanding individual differences in cognitive performance is a major challenge to
animal behaviour and cognition studies. We used the Eastern water skink (Eulamprus …

Behavioural flexibility allows an animal to adapt its behaviour in response to changes in the
environment. Research conducted in primates, rodents and domestic fowl suggests greater …

The study of animal personality variation promises to provide significant new insight into the
way that behavior evolves in animals, along with its ecological and evolutionary influences …

Simple Summary The interchangeable usage of the words “personality”,“temperament” and
“behavioral syndromes” in animal behavior research has often led to confusion. In this …