Social grouping is omnipresent in the animal kingdom. Considerable research has focused
on understanding how animal groups form and function, including how collective behaviour …

Recent studies of animal personality have focused on its proximate causation and its
ecological and evolutionary significance, but have mostly ignored questions about its …

This review examines the contribution of research on fishes to the growing field of
behavioural syndromes. Current knowledge of behavioural syndromes in fishes is reviewed …

There has been considerable interest among biologists in the phenomenon of non‐human
animal personality in recent years. Consistent variations among individuals in their …

Developmental processes can have major impacts on the correlations in behaviour across
contexts (contextual generality) and across time (temporal consistency) that are the …

In recent years, evidence for interindividual variation in “personality” within animal
populations has been accumulating. Personality is defined as consistency in an individual's …

Animal social networks can be extremely complex and are characterized by highly non-
random interactions between group members. However, very little is known about the …

Individual common carp Cyprinus carpio were screened repeatedly for risk taking (rate of
exploration of a novel, potentially dangerous environment) and for competitive ability …

Personality traits are becoming increasingly important in explaining adaptive individual
differences in animal behaviour and probably represent a leading edge of the evolutionary …

A fundamental question of current ecological research concerns the drives and limits of
species responses to human-induced rapid environmental change (HIREC). Behavioural …