Personality assessment of headstart Texas horned lizards (Phrynosoma cornutum) in human care prior to release

Barrett, Lisa P.; Anthony, Kelsea L.; Eliades, Samuel J.; Siler, Cameron D.; Lock, Brad; Snyder, Rebecca J.

doi:10.1016/j.applanim.2022.105690

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“…For example, an individual of P. major was placed in a closed chamber with five artificial trees to judge its exploratory ability by recording the number of movements (jumps between branches in the trees), two types of behavior (e.g., flights and hops), and time required to visit the five trees within 10 min (Both et al, 2005; Groothuis & Carere, 2005). Usually, small animals (e.g., amphibians, Allobates femoralis and Rana temporaria ; reptiles, P. cornutum and Zootoca vivipara ) can be placed into a rectangular container or a strange cage space to observe and record individual behavior variables (Barrett et al, 2022; Brodin et al, 2013; Kelleher et al, 2018; Le Galliard et al, 2013). Novel environment test is also used to measure the boldness of animals.…”

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“…The decorations of the test field are renewed to ensure the tested animal is in new environments in each test (Fox et al, 2009; Siviter et al, 2017). The novel environment test has been used to test the exploration of birds (e.g., Parus major ), amphibians (e.g., R. catesbeiana ), reptiles (e.g., Phrynosoma cornutum ), and fishes (e.g., P. reticulata ) (Barrett et al, 2022; Both et al, 2005; Brown & Irving, 2014; Carlson & Langkilde, 2013). For example, an individual of P. major was placed in a closed chamber with five artificial trees to judge its exploratory ability by recording the number of movements (jumps between branches in the trees), two types of behavior (e.g., flights and hops), and time required to visit the five trees within 10 min (Both et al, 2005; Groothuis & Carere, 2005).…”

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confidence: 99%

“…However, when measuring activity in unfamiliar environments, it is not fully clear whether an individual's rate of movement reflects its baseline activity level or exploratory behavior stimulated by the new environments (Kelleher et al, 2018). Activity of animals may be measured more accurately in a familiar environment than in a new environment (Barrett et al, 2022; Carlson & Langkilde, 2013). Moreover, in each repeated test, how to change the decorations of the test field is controversial and its effects on the behavioral plasticity of the tested animals have not been fully estimated.…”

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A review to the methods of personality measurements in wild animals

Cheng,

He,

Zhang

et al. 2023

Wildlife Letters

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One of the challenges in the study of animal personalities is to select a suitable method to measure personality. Here, we reviewed the three common methods (traits rating, behavioral coding, and experimentation) used in animal personality measurement in wild animals. For each method, we summarized its experimental animals and conditions, advantages, and disadvantages in personality measurement. One method could be used to measure the personalities of different animal species, and different methods could be used to measure the personality of one animal species. Overall, traits rating was used to test the personalities of large animals (e.g., primates), behavioral coding was conducted both in large and small animals (e.g., primates, birds, rodents, and fishes), whereas experimentation was used in small animals (e.g., rodents, birds, amphibians, and insects). Although the methods of experimentation were originally designed for model animals (e.g., mice and rats), some of them were used to test the personalities of wild animals under indoor conditions, in which the experimental animals were transferred from the field to the laboratory. Unfortunately, few studies have estimated the applicability of these methods to wild animals. In the future, effective methods of personality measurement are needed for wild animals, especially the methods that can be used in the field.

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Section: Methods Of Experimentationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Methods Of Experimentationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Methods Of Experimentationmentioning

confidence: 99%

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A review to the methods of personality measurements in wild animals

Cheng,

He,

Zhang

et al. 2023

Wildlife Letters

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“…a test) 32 – 34 . Captive populations can be ideal subjects for personality research as the identification of individuals is often easily achieved in captive settings 10 and the findings may have immediately actionable management and welfare applications 35 – 37 .…”

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Individual personality predicts social network assemblages in a colonial bird

McCully

Rose

2023

Sci Rep

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Animal personalities manifest as consistent individual differences in the performance of specific behavioural expressions. Personality research has implications for zoo animal welfare, as it can further our understanding of how captive individuals may differ in their resource use and provide insight into improving individual and group social health. For group living species, personality may enable assortment based on similar behaviour and influence an individual’s interactions with conspecifics (e.g. social support). This research aimed to document how personality traits (aggressive, exploratory, submissive) influenced the social network structure of highly social animals in a captive environment. Data were collected from separate flocks of captive Caribbean (Phoenicopterus ruber) and Chilean flamingos (Phoenicopterus chilensis) to identify relationships between birds and examine opportunities for social support. The flocks associated non-randomly, and in both cases, personality was a substantial predictor of network structure. Personality also predicted key elements of Caribbean flamingo social role (degree, betweenness and average association strength) conflict outcome, and propensity to provide social support, however these patterns were not replicated within the Chilean flamingo network. While both species appear to assort by personality, the broader relationship between personality and social role may vary depending on species and context.

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“…Behavioral syndromes, or suites of correlated traits, have been described in many taxa including invertebrates (Labaude, et al 2018), sh ( Barrett et al 2022). Individual variation in the expression of behavioral traits is assumed have effects on tness; for example, a metaanalysis that included mammals, birds, arthropods, and sh found that bolder individuals had higher reproductive success, but at a survival cost (Smith and Blumstein 2008).…”

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Testing the Pace-of-Life Syndrome in the Tree Lizard, Urosaurus ornatus

Goerge

Miles

2022

Preprint

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The pace-of-life syndrome (POLS) describes covariation between behavioral, physiological, and in some instances thermal traits. The POLS predicts that bolder, more exploratory individuals should have higher metabolic rates, higher physiological performance, and prefer and perform better at high temperatures. Evidence supporting the POLS has been mixed. The goal of this study was to test the POLS in the color polymorphic tree lizard (Urosaurus ornatus) by comparing behavioral, thermal, and physiological performance traits, among all individuals, between the sexes, and among color morphs. We measured behavioral traits using laboratory-based estimates of boldness and exploration, thermal preference traits using a thermal gradient, and used stamina as a measure of locomotor performance. We described the patterns of covariation among the physiological, behavioral, and thermal traits using a principal component analysis. Bolder lizards were more exploratory, but selected cooler body temperatures, which contradicts the relationship predicted by the POLS. We also found that stamina was unrelated to either behavioral or thermal traits. Only boldness and exploration differed among the color morphs: blue and yellow/blue throated males were more exploratory than yellow males and yellow/blue males were bolder than yellow and orange/yellow males. Our results provide little support for the POLS in tree lizards. This study emphasizes the importance of not overgeneralizing the prevalence of the POLS and that in some populations, local conditions and selection pressures may play a larger role in trait correlations than suites of generalized traits.

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Personality assessment of headstart Texas horned lizards (Phrynosoma cornutum) in human care prior to release

Cited by 6 publications

References 41 publications

A review to the methods of personality measurements in wild animals

A review to the methods of personality measurements in wild animals

Individual personality predicts social network assemblages in a colonial bird

Testing the Pace-of-Life Syndrome in the Tree Lizard, Urosaurus ornatus

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