Corticosterone stress response shows long-term repeatability and links to personality in free-living Nazca boobies

Grace, Jacquelyn K.; Anderson, David J.

doi:10.1016/j.ygcen.2014.08.020

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“…, Wingfield and Sapolsky ) and prioritize their own survival because their fitness gain from a given brood may be smaller than that of females. In addition, the different susceptibilities of males and females to stress may be mediated by sex differences in the stress‐induced hormonal response that have been reported in some species of birds (O'Reilly and Wingfield , Grace and Anderson ).…”

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Effects of capture and video-recording on the behavior and breeding success of Great Tits in urban and forest habitats

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Behavioral research often involves capturing and video‐recording birds, but these procedures may have undesired effects on the behavior of birds that have rarely been quantified. In addition, birds in urban and more natural areas may differ in their sensitivity to disturbance. We examined the possible effects of both capturing, weighing and measuring, and taking a blood sample, and the presence of video‐cameras on the behavior of male and female Great Tits (Parus major) breeding in urban and forest habitats. Using a 2 × 2 block design, we compared the behavior and breeding success of parents that either were or were not captured on their nests a few days before behavioral observations, and of parents that either were or were not habituated to the presence of a concealed video‐recorder mounted on nest boxes. We found no significant effects of habituation to the camera on bird behavior, but males captured in their nest boxes were more vigilant and hesitated longer before entering nest boxes, and also had slightly lower provisioning rates than males that had not been captured. Captured females also tended to be more vigilant than females that had not been captured, but their provisioning rates were not affected. Capturing males also influenced the behavior of their non‐captured mates, but capturing females had no effect on the behavior of their non‐captured mates. We found no difference in the effects of capture on Great Tits in urban and forest habitats, and our treatments also had no effect on the mass, size, and survival of nestlings until fledging. Our results suggest that, for Great Tits, being captured results in sex‐dependent behavioral effects that can last for at least several days. As such, we suggest that the possibility of similar effects in other species of birds should be considered in behavioral studies where birds must be captured, and recommend either that behavioral data be collected before capturing birds or that all birds in a study should be captured and handled in a standardized way.

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Effects of capture and video-recording on the behavior and breeding success of Great Tits in urban and forest habitats

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“…Because many of these behaviors also occur in a social context (e.g., allogrooming, feeding offspring, or hunting in a group), an elevation of GCs may not always inhibit social behavior. For example, GCs may promote as well as inhibit aggression toward conspecifics depending on social rank, personality and the duration of the stressor (Grace & Anderson, 2014; Summers et al., 2005). Furthermore, while acute HPA‐axis activity may trigger dopamine production, severe stress is known to abolish this rewarding effect and lead to social withdrawal (Lemos et al., 2012).…”

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“…However, not all proactive behavior (e.g., territorial aggression) is unequivocally sociable behavior and in highly social species, social behavior often has components of both proactivity and reactivity. While reactive individuals are always less sociable, proactive behavior may divide into two types: In less social species, proactive personalities can be sociable (e.g., curious, bold, approaching conspecifics of opposite sex) or aggressive (e.g., territorial behavior; see Rödel, Monclus, & von Holst, 2006; Grace & Anderson, 2014). In highly social species, proactive personalities can divide into either unresponsive to social stress (callous) or responding to social stress with sociable behavior (see Seyfarth et al., 2012).…”

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Associations between glucocorticoids and sociality across a continuum of vertebrate social behavior

Raulo

Dantzer

2018

Ecology and Evolution

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The causes and consequences of individual differences in animal behavior and stress physiology are increasingly studied in wild animals, yet the possibility that stress physiology underlies individual variation in social behavior has received less attention. In this review, we bring together these study areas and focus on understanding how the activity of the vertebrate neuroendocrine stress axis (HPA‐axis) may underlie individual differences in social behavior in wild animals. We first describe a continuum of vertebrate social behaviors spanning from initial social tendencies (proactive behavior) to social behavior occurring in reproductive contexts (parental care, sexual pair‐bonding) and lastly to social behavior occurring in nonreproductive contexts (nonsexual bonding, group‐level cooperation). We then perform a qualitative review of existing literature to address the correlative and causal association between measures of HPA‐axis activity (glucocorticoid levels or GCs) and each of these types of social behavior. As expected, elevated HPA‐axis activity can inhibit social behavior associated with initial social tendencies (approaching conspecifics) and reproduction. However, elevated HPA‐axis activity may also enhance more elaborate social behavior outside of reproductive contexts, such as alloparental care behavior. In addition, the effect of GCs on social behavior can depend upon the sociality of the stressor (cause of increase in GCs) and the severity of stress (extent of increase in GCs). Our review shows that the while the associations between stress responses and sociality are diverse, the role of HPA‐axis activity behind social behavior may shift toward more facilitating and less inhibiting in more social species, providing insight into how stress physiology and social systems may co‐evolve.

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“…Since consistent differences in behavior among individuals may result from consistent differences in physiology (Wolf & Weissing, ), we investigated corticosterone levels and growth rates as possible physiological mediators of variation in behavior. Previous studies have found mixed evidence for the relationship between corticosterone levels and behavioral traits (Baugh, Van, Naguib, & Hau, ; Carere et al., ; Grace & Anderson, ; Jones, Mills, Faure, & Williams, ; Koolhaas et al., ; Martins, Roberts, Giblin, Huxham, & Evans, ; Mignon‐Grasteau et al., ; Thomson, Watts, Pottinger, & Sneddon, ), and between growth rate and behavior (Adriaenssens & Johnsson, ; Biro, Adriaenssens, & Sampson, ; Clobert et al., ; Vøllestad & Quinn, ). In our study, neither circulating corticosterone levels nor growth rates were related to any behavior, suggesting that incubation temperature is exerting an effect on behavior independently of these physiological factors.…”

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Incubation temperature influences the behavioral traits of a young precocial bird

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The environment in which animals develop can have important consequences for their phenotype. In reptiles, incubation temperature is a critical aspect of the early developmental environment. Incubation temperature influences morphology, physiology, and behavior of non-avian reptiles, however, little is known about how incubation temperature influences offspring phenotype and behaviors important to avian survival. To investigate whether incubation temperature influences avian behaviors, we collected wood duck (Aix sponsa) eggs from the field and incubated them at three naturally occurring incubation temperatures (35.0, 35.8, and 37.0°C). We conducted multiple repeated behavioral trials on individual ducklings between 5 and 15 days post-hatch to assess activity, exploratory, and boldness behaviors, classified along a proactive-reactive continuum. We measured growth rates and circulating levels of baseline and stress-induced corticosterone levels to investigate possible physiological correlates of behavior. Ducklings incubated at the lowest temperature displayed more proactive behaviors than those incubated at the two higher temperatures. We also found that younger ducklings exhibited more proactive behavior than older ducklings and males exhibited more proactive behavior than females. Further, duckling behaviors were repeatable across time and contexts, indicative of a proactive-reactive continuum of behavioral tendencies. However, neither corticosterone levels nor growth rates were related to behavior. This provides some of the first evidence that incubation temperature, a critical parental effect, influences avian offspring behaviors that may be important for survival. Our results identify incubation temperature as a mechanism that contributes to the development of behavioral traits and, in part, explains how multiple behavioral types may be maintained within populations.

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Corticosterone stress response shows long-term repeatability and links to personality in free-living Nazca boobies

Cited by 33 publications

References 55 publications

Effects of capture and video-recording on the behavior and breeding success of Great Tits in urban and forest habitats

Effects of capture and video-recording on the behavior and breeding success of Great Tits in urban and forest habitats

Associations between glucocorticoids and sociality across a continuum of vertebrate social behavior

Incubation temperature influences the behavioral traits of a young precocial bird

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