Personality predicts spatial responses to food manipulations in free-ranging great tits (
            <i>Parus major</i>
            )

Overveld, Thijs van; Matthysen, Erik

doi:10.1098/rsbl.2009.0764

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“…However, behavioural studies in our population have shown that exploration rate also predicts spatial patterns of foraging behaviour in non-territorial situations 21,22 , strongly suggesting that the genetic coupling between personality and local dispersal is driven by variation in innate exploratory tendencies rather than aggressive behaviour. This contrasts with previous findings in western bluebirds (Sialia mexicana), in which male dispersal propensity in an expanding population was genetically correlated with aggression 6,29 .…”

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“…Captured individuals were transported to the laboratory where they were kept overnight and tested for exploration rate the following morning. Individual exploration rates were measured using a well-established protocol for testing exploratory behaviour in great tits [16][17][18][19][20][21][22] , which is an adapted version of the classical open-field test used for testing exploratory behaviour in rodents 38 . In brief, each bird was released in a test room with standard dimensions (4.0 Â 2.4 Â 2.3 m) containing five perches, after which the number of movements (hops and flights) was recorded during 2 min.…”

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“…Previous investigations have found that fast-exploring individuals are also bolder when approaching novel objects and more aggressive towards conspecifics, compared with slow explorers (reviewed in Groothuis and Carere 15 ). The variation in exploration rate has a heritable component 17,18 , and phenotypic correlations have been reported between exploration rate and dispersal 19,20 , as well as spatial behaviour during foraging 21,22 . Here we test whether dispersal and exploratory behaviours are also genetically integrated by estimating the genetic correlation 23 between the distance of local dispersal within our study area and exploration rate.…”

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Genetic integration of local dispersal and exploratory behaviour in a wild bird

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Dispersal is a major determinant of the ecological and evolutionary dynamics of natural populations. Individuals differ greatly in the likelihood and distance of dispersal, but it is generally unclear to what extent intrinsic, possibly genetic, differences contribute. Here we present the first explicit empirical evidence for genetic coupling of local dispersal and exploratory behaviour, a key 'animal personality' trait. Using relatedness data from a multi-generation pedigree of free-living great tits (Parus major), we find quantitative genetic variation for both the distance of local dispersal within our study area and the rate at which individuals explore a novel environment. Moreover, we find a strongly positive genetic correlation between local dispersal distance and exploration rate, despite a weak and non-significant phenotypic correlation. These findings demonstrate a potentially important behavioural mechanism underlying heritable differences in local dispersal and highlight the potential for concerted evolution of dispersal and animal personality in response to selection.

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“…Aggression has also been regarded as a typical response of proactive copers to stressful situations (Koolhaas et al, 1999;Carere et al, 2010), and pecking rate during handling is classically used to compare level of proactivity among individuals (Brommer and Kluen, 2012;van den Brink et al, 2012a,b;Class et al, 2014;Kluen et al, 2014;Dubuc-Messier et al, 2017). Breath rate has also been suggested as an indicator of coping style, with breath rates being higher in proactive individuals than in reactive ones (Carere and van Oers, 2004;van Oers and Carere, 2007;Torné-Noguera et al, 2014;Charmantier et al, 2017). Additionally, breath rate has been found to correlate positively to exploration rate, which as previously stated, is one of the main characteristics of the proactive coping style .…”

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Urban Great Tits (Parus major) Show Higher Distress Calling and Pecking Rates than Rural Birds across Europe

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Environmental change associated with urbanization is considered one of the major threats to biodiversity. Some species nevertheless seem to thrive in the urban areas, probably associated with selection for phenotypes that match urban habitats. Previous research defined different "copying styles" in distress behavior during the handling of birds. These behaviors vary along a continuum from "proactive" to "reactive" copers. By studying avian distress behaviors we aimed to broaden our understanding of the relationship between coping styles and urbanization. Using a large-scale comparative study of seven paired rural and urban sites across Europe, we assayed distress behaviors during handling of urban and rural-dwelling populations of the great tit Parus major. We detected no consistent pairwise differences in breath rate between urban and rural habitats. However, urban great tits displayed more distress calling (fear screams) and higher pecking rate (handling aggression) than rural birds. These findings suggest that urban great tits have a more proactive coping strategy when dealing with stressful conditions. This finding is in line with previous studies implying that urban great tits are more explorative, less neophobic, and display shorter flight distances than their rural counterparts, representing further aspects of the same "proactive," coping strategy. Future research should investigate whether reported differences in distress behavior are due to local adaption caused by natural selection or due to phenotypic plasticity.

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“…First, many studies of animal personality have used captive individuals where their space use in nature cannot be addressed. Second, many previous studies suggesting that BT affects habitat preference or space use of mammals [18,22], birds [23,24], and fish [25][26][27][28] have derived their measures of space use and BT non-independently, from the same in situ movement data. For example, activity or exploration tendency (both widely used BTs) are commonly estimated from movement data, often through dimension reduction by principal component analysis (e.g.…”

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When the going gets tough: behavioural type-dependent space use in the sleepy lizard changes as the season dries

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Understanding space use remains a major challenge for animal ecology, with implications for species interactions, disease spread, and conservation. Behavioural type (BT) may shape the space use of individuals within animal populations. Bolder or more aggressive individuals tend to be more exploratory and disperse further. Yet, to date we have limited knowledge on how space use other than dispersal depends on BT. To address this question we studied BT-dependent space-use patterns of sleepy lizards (Tiliqua rugosa) in southern Australia. We combined high-resolution global positioning system (GPS) tracking of 72 free-ranging lizards with repeated behavioural assays, and with a survey of the spatial distributions of their food and refuge resources. Bayesian generalized linear mixed models (GLMM) showed that lizards responded to the spatial distribution of resources at the neighbourhood scale and to the intensity of space use by other conspecifics (showing apparent conspecific avoidance). BT (especially aggressiveness) affected space use by lizards and their response to ecological and social factors, in a seasonally dependent manner. Many of these effects and interactions were stronger later in the season when food became scarce and environmental conditions got tougher. For example, refuge and food availability became more important later in the season and unaggressive lizards were more responsive to these predictors. These findings highlight a commonly overlooked source of heterogeneity in animal space use and improve our mechanistic understanding of processes leading to behaviourally driven disease dynamics and social structure.

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Personality predicts spatial responses to food manipulations in free-ranging great tits ( Parus major )

Cited by 123 publications

References 11 publications

Genetic integration of local dispersal and exploratory behaviour in a wild bird

Genetic integration of local dispersal and exploratory behaviour in a wild bird

Urban Great Tits (Parus major) Show Higher Distress Calling and Pecking Rates than Rural Birds across Europe

When the going gets tough: behavioural type-dependent space use in the sleepy lizard changes as the season dries

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