Do personality traits diverge in different communally housed captive penguin species?
Research into animal personality has grown over the last decade as its relevance to animal health and welfare has become more apparent. Personality has been used also for aspects of captive management, including decreasing stress, increasing positive health outcomes, successful breeding also in term...
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ftunivmilanoair:oai:air.unimi.it:2434/655756 2024-04-21T08:06:32+00:00 Do personality traits diverge in different communally housed captive penguin species? Giovanni Quintavalle Pastorino Dawn Nicoll Lorna Moffat Roman Pizzi Massimo Faustini Giulio Curone Silvia Michela Mazzola G. QUINTAVALLE PASTORINO D. Nicoll L. Moffat R. Pizzi M. Faustini G. Curone S.M. Mazzola 2019-06-04 http://hdl.handle.net/2434/655756 eng eng Advancing animal welfare science: How do we get there? - Who is it good for? http://hdl.handle.net/2434/655756 www.ufaw.org.uk/ufawbruges2019 info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess Settore VET/02 - Fisiologia Veterinaria info:eu-repo/semantics/conferenceObject 2019 ftunivmilanoair 2024-03-27T16:45:27Z Research into animal personality has grown over the last decade as its relevance to animal health and welfare has become more apparent. Personality has been used also for aspects of captive management, including decreasing stress, increasing positive health outcomes, successful breeding also in terms of infant survival. For wildlife management, determining inter-species differences in the personality traits of communally housed animals could be of great help to optimize the use of resources, in order to improve animal welfare. In group-living species, integrated decisions made by individuals result in collective behaviors which may, in turn, influence interactions between individuals and shape the resulting social system. There is evidence that animal groups may exhibit coordinated behavior and make collective decisions based on simple interaction rules. It has been described that in a flock or a colony, birds tend to exhibit behavioral synchrony, maintaining similar behavior at approximately the same time throughout the group, and also wild penguins have exhibited within-group synchrony. In this study we have considered three species of penguins, housed together at RZSS Edinburgh Zoo, Scotland, UK. The exhibit houses a colony of Gentoo penguins (Pygoscelis papua), a bachelor group of King penguins (Aptenodytes patagonicus) and a small colony of Northern rockhopper penguins (Eudyptes moseleyi). In a mixed species enclosure, animals are far more intermingled than they would be in the wild and have a limited area in which to maintain different territories. A keeper questionnaire (coding method) was used to produce personality profiles for each penguin. A multivariate analysis (Multiple Factor Analysis) on the mean values of the variables was used to analyze the data. The quantitative variables were all the measured characteristics; gender and species were included as qualitative variables. Results outlined a distinct personality in each animal, distinguishing each species in personality traits. The three species ... Conference Object King Penguins Pygoscelis papua The University of Milan: Archivio Istituzionale della Ricerca (AIR) |
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Research into animal personality has grown over the last decade as its relevance to animal health and welfare has become more apparent. Personality has been used also for aspects of captive management, including decreasing stress, increasing positive health outcomes, successful breeding also in terms of infant survival. For wildlife management, determining inter-species differences in the personality traits of communally housed animals could be of great help to optimize the use of resources, in order to improve animal welfare. In group-living species, integrated decisions made by individuals result in collective behaviors which may, in turn, influence interactions between individuals and shape the resulting social system. There is evidence that animal groups may exhibit coordinated behavior and make collective decisions based on simple interaction rules. It has been described that in a flock or a colony, birds tend to exhibit behavioral synchrony, maintaining similar behavior at approximately the same time throughout the group, and also wild penguins have exhibited within-group synchrony. In this study we have considered three species of penguins, housed together at RZSS Edinburgh Zoo, Scotland, UK. The exhibit houses a colony of Gentoo penguins (Pygoscelis papua), a bachelor group of King penguins (Aptenodytes patagonicus) and a small colony of Northern rockhopper penguins (Eudyptes moseleyi). In a mixed species enclosure, animals are far more intermingled than they would be in the wild and have a limited area in which to maintain different territories. A keeper questionnaire (coding method) was used to produce personality profiles for each penguin. A multivariate analysis (Multiple Factor Analysis) on the mean values of the variables was used to analyze the data. The quantitative variables were all the measured characteristics; gender and species were included as qualitative variables. Results outlined a distinct personality in each animal, distinguishing each species in personality traits. The three species ... |
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G. QUINTAVALLE PASTORINO D. Nicoll L. Moffat R. Pizzi M. Faustini G. Curone S.M. Mazzola |
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Giovanni Quintavalle Pastorino Dawn Nicoll Lorna Moffat Roman Pizzi Massimo Faustini Giulio Curone Silvia Michela Mazzola |
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Giovanni Quintavalle Pastorino Dawn Nicoll Lorna Moffat Roman Pizzi Massimo Faustini Giulio Curone Silvia Michela Mazzola |
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Do personality traits diverge in different communally housed captive penguin species? |
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Do personality traits diverge in different communally housed captive penguin species? |
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Do personality traits diverge in different communally housed captive penguin species? |
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Do personality traits diverge in different communally housed captive penguin species? |
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Do personality traits diverge in different communally housed captive penguin species? |
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do personality traits diverge in different communally housed captive penguin species? |
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King Penguins Pygoscelis papua |
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King Penguins Pygoscelis papua |
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