Personality predicts social dominance in female zebra finches, Taeniopygia guttata, in a feeding context

David, Morgan; Auclair, Yannick; Cézilly, Frank

doi:10.1016/j.anbehav.2010.10.008

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“…Having a short recovery time may mean that more stings can be landed on the opponent, which increases the chance of victory in escalated fights. Similarly, in contests over dominance status in rainbowfish, Melanotaenia duboulayi [18], zebra finches, Taeniopygia guttata [19], and domestic fowl, Gallus gallus domesticus [5], dominant individuals are consistently more proactive when not fighting and more aggressive during fights. Thus, personality traits such as boldness not only covary with aggressiveness but also, in many cases, with RHP itself.…”

Section: Is Personality a Resource-holding Potential Trait?mentioning

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Animal personality as a cause and consequence of contest behaviour

2015

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We review the evidence for a link between consistent among-individual variation in behaviour (animal personality) and the ability to win contests over limited resources. Explorative and bold behaviours often covary with contest behaviour and outcome, although there is evidence that the structure of these 'behavioural syndromes' can change across situations. Aggression itself is typically repeatable, but also subject to high within-individual variation as a consequence of plastic responses to previous fight outcomes and opponent traits. Common proximate mechanisms (gene expression, endocrine control and metabolic rates) may underpin variation in both contest behaviour and general personality traits. Given the theoretical links between the evolution of fighting and of personality, we suggest that longitudinal studies of contest behaviour, combining behavioural and physiological data, would be a useful context for the study of animal personalities.

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Section: Is Personality a Resource-holding Potential Trait?mentioning

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Animal personality as a cause and consequence of contest behaviour

2015

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“…Studies of nonhuman animals have shown that personality traits are ubiquitous in the animal kingdom; a wide range of fish (Mittelbach, Ballew, & Kjelvik, 2014;Toms, Echevarria, & Jouandot, 2010), birds (e.g., chickens, Gallus gallus domesticus, Favati, Leimar, & Lovlie, 2014; zebra finches, Taeniopygia guttata, David, Auclair, & Cezilly, 2011, Schuett, Dall, & Royle, 2011Japanese quail, Coturnix japonica, Miller, Garner, & Mench, 2006), numerous mammal species (e.g., pigs, Sus domesticus, Marino & Colvin, 2015;horses, Equus caballus, Hausberger, Bruderer, Le Scolan, & Pierre, 2004;dogs, Canis familiaris, Svartberg, Tapper, Temrin, Radesäter, & Thorman, 2005;cats, Felis catus, Bennett, Rutter, Woodhead, & Howell, 2017;nonhuman primates, Freeman & Gosling, 2010); reptiles and amphibians (Allard, Fuller,Torgerson-White, & Murray, 2015;Burghardt, 2013), and invertebrates (Kralj-Fišer & Schuett, 2014, for a review) show persistent individual differences that can be organized along core personality dimensions, many of which overlap with those found in humans (Gosling, 2008;Gosling & John, 1999). Vonk, Weiss, and Kuczaj (2017) offer a comprehensive and upto-date review of personality in nonhuman animals.…”

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The Psychology of Cows

Marino¹,

Allen²

2017

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-Domestic cows (Bos taurus) are consumed worldwide as beef and veal, kept as dairy product producers, employed as draft animals in labor, and are used for a long list of other products, including leather and manure. But despite global reliance on cows for thousands of years, most people's perception of them is as plodding herd animals with little individual personality and very simple social relationships or preferences. Yet, a review of the scientific literature on cow behavior points to more complex cognitive, emotional and social characteristics. Moreover, when cow behavior is addressed, it is almost entirely done within the framework of and applied to their use as food commodities. Therefore, there is relatively little attention to the study of cow intelligence, personality and sociality at a basic comparative level. In this review, we examine the current state of scientific knowledge about cows within an objective comparative framework, describing their cognitive, emotional, and social characteristics. Our aim is to provide a more veridical and objective current summary of cow psychology on its own terms and in ways which will facilitate better-informed comparisons with other animals. Moreover, an understanding of the capabilities and characteristics of domestic cows will, it is hoped, advance our understanding of who they are as individuals.

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“…Second, even when an individual is described using several personality traits, one cannot speak about behavioural syndromes, only about behavioural types (e.g. Herczeg et al 2009;David et al 2011). …”

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Individual deviation from behavioural correlations: a simple approach to study the evolution of behavioural syndromes

Herczeg

Garamszegi

2011

Behav Ecol Sociobiol

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The study of correlations between different behaviours in a population-referred to as behavioural syndromes-has begun to flourish during recent years. However, the evolutionary mechanisms that cause behavioural traits to vary non-independently from each other are still poorly understood. Here, we bring behavioural syndromes into a new perspective, in which the phenomenon is regarded at the individual level and on a continuous scale instead of as a population-level presence/absence trait. As the correlation between behaviours is never perfect (i.e. r < 1), individuals are likely to vary in how consistently they behave. Therefore, we can predict that if behavioural syndromes at the population level are results of natural selection, the consistency in a suite of behaviours-and not the behavioural configuration per se-should be heritable and involve fitness advantages at the individual level. We define a variable that describes the individual deviation from the hypothetical perfect correlation predicted by the syndrome. The use of such a variable depicting the consistency of behaviours of individuals allows us to make solid evolutionary inferences about correlated behaviours from patterns of individual instead of population variation. We suggest that, by adopting the concept of syndrome deviation, understanding the evolution of behavioural syndromes and, in particular, testing competing evolutionary hypotheses about the origin of behavioural syndromes becomes possible in a more rigorous manner than before. While correlations between different behaviours were described already a good while ago (Huntingford 1976), ethologists and behavioural ecologists continued to study behavioural traits (e.g. aggression, foraging) and ecological contexts (e.g. mating vs. non-mating seasons) in isolation from each other assuming case-by-case individual optimisation. However, the interest has recently turned towards analysing behavioural traits across different contexts (e.g. aggression towards competitors and own offspring) or analysing a suite of behavioural traits (e.g. aggression towards conspecifics and risk-taking in the presence of predators) together. When correlations across contexts and/ or behavioural traits exist, the resulting phenomenon bears a close resemblance to human personality (Gosling 2001). Such correlations are often referred to as 'behavioural

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Personality predicts social dominance in female zebra finches, Taeniopygia guttata, in a feeding context

Cited by 153 publications

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Animal personality as a cause and consequence of contest behaviour

Animal personality as a cause and consequence of contest behaviour

The Psychology of Cows

Individual deviation from behavioural correlations: a simple approach to study the evolution of behavioural syndromes

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