Consistency in boldness, activity and exploration at different stages of life
Herde A, Eccard JA. Consistency in boldness, activity and exploration at different stages of life. BMC Ecology . 2013;13. Background: Animals show consistent individual behavioural patterns over time and over situations. This phenomenon has been referred to as animal personality or behavioural syndr...
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ftubbiepub:oai:pub.uni-bielefeld.de:2656851 2023-05-15T15:56:38+02:00 Consistency in boldness, activity and exploration at different stages of life Herde, Antje Eccard, Jana A. 2013 https://pub.uni-bielefeld.de/record/2656851 eng eng Springer (Biomed Central Ltd.) info:eu-repo/semantics/altIdentifier/doi/10.1186/1472-6785-13-49 info:eu-repo/semantics/altIdentifier/issn/1472-6785 info:eu-repo/semantics/altIdentifier/wos/000329942100001 info:eu-repo/semantics/altIdentifier/pmid/24314274 https://pub.uni-bielefeld.de/record/2656851 info:eu-repo/semantics/closedAccess Plasticity Common vole Microtus arvalis Animal personality Behavioural type Consistency Repeatability http://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_6501 info:eu-repo/semantics/article doc-type:article text 2013 ftubbiepub https://doi.org/10.1186/1472-6785-13-49 2022-02-08T22:32:58Z Herde A, Eccard JA. Consistency in boldness, activity and exploration at different stages of life. BMC Ecology . 2013;13. Background: Animals show consistent individual behavioural patterns over time and over situations. This phenomenon has been referred to as animal personality or behavioural syndromes. Little is known about consistency of animal personalities over entire life times. We investigated the repeatability of behaviour in common voles (Microtus arvalis) at different life stages, with different time intervals, and in different situations. Animals were tested using four behavioural tests in three experimental groups: 1. before and after maturation over three months, 2. twice as adults during one week, and 3. twice as adult animals over three months, which resembles a substantial part of their entire adult life span of several months. Results: Different behaviours were correlated within and between tests and a cluster analysis showed three possible behavioural syndrome-axes, which we name boldness, exploration and activity. Activity and exploration behaviour in all tests was highly repeatable in adult animals tested over one week. In animals tested over maturation, exploration behaviour was consistent whereas activity was not. Voles that were tested as adults with a three-month interval showed the opposite pattern with stable activity but unstable exploration behaviour. Conclusions: The consistency in behaviour over time suggests that common voles do express stable personality over short time. Over longer periods however, behaviour is more flexible and depending on life stage (i.e. tested before/after maturation or as adults) of the tested individual. Level of boldness or activity does not differ between tested groups and maintenance of variation in behavioural traits can therefore not be explained by expected future assets as reported in other studies. Article in Journal/Newspaper Common vole Microtus arvalis PUB - Publications at Bielefeld University BMC Ecology 13 1 49 |
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Herde A, Eccard JA. Consistency in boldness, activity and exploration at different stages of life. BMC Ecology . 2013;13. Background: Animals show consistent individual behavioural patterns over time and over situations. This phenomenon has been referred to as animal personality or behavioural syndromes. Little is known about consistency of animal personalities over entire life times. We investigated the repeatability of behaviour in common voles (Microtus arvalis) at different life stages, with different time intervals, and in different situations. Animals were tested using four behavioural tests in three experimental groups: 1. before and after maturation over three months, 2. twice as adults during one week, and 3. twice as adult animals over three months, which resembles a substantial part of their entire adult life span of several months. Results: Different behaviours were correlated within and between tests and a cluster analysis showed three possible behavioural syndrome-axes, which we name boldness, exploration and activity. Activity and exploration behaviour in all tests was highly repeatable in adult animals tested over one week. In animals tested over maturation, exploration behaviour was consistent whereas activity was not. Voles that were tested as adults with a three-month interval showed the opposite pattern with stable activity but unstable exploration behaviour. Conclusions: The consistency in behaviour over time suggests that common voles do express stable personality over short time. Over longer periods however, behaviour is more flexible and depending on life stage (i.e. tested before/after maturation or as adults) of the tested individual. Level of boldness or activity does not differ between tested groups and maintenance of variation in behavioural traits can therefore not be explained by expected future assets as reported in other studies. |
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