... It is concluded that animal studies provide unique opportunities to examine biological,
genetic, and environmental bases of personality and to study personality change,
personality–health links, and personality perception. (PsycINFO ...

... selection may operate on animal personality traits. We fur- ther discuss examples
of a range of study systems where selection on animal personality has been
measured incompletely using short-term proxies for fitness only. ...

... 2005). Because it is inadvisable to rely on assumptions about the contextual
generality of behaviour, one of the first tasks in any study of animal personality is
to document correlations across contexts in behaviour. The nature ...

... sighted for behavioral ecologists to study PTs while ignoring LH, and equally short-sighted for
ecologists to study LH traits while ignoring personality. ... to generate the consistent individual
differences in behavioral and LH traits that have been reported in many animal taxa. ...

... Animal personality therefore corresponds most closely to (individual differences in) the elevation
of a BRN 2 ... The existence of personality does not necessarily imply that each individual is
completely ... also be included in our definition of context, enabling the study of behavioural ...

... selection in the evolution and maintenance of personality differences, to review the existing studies
and finally to develop a conceptual framework to study such a ... We begin with a short introduction
to sexual selection and further details on the components of animal personality. ...

... Table 1. Heritability estimates and the methods how they are derived from studies on personality
traits on different animal species. Given are: the method with which the heritability was calculated,
the personality trait, the study species. Significant heritabilities are indicated by ∗ . ...

... Unfortunately, physiologists rarely indicate how many individuals were excluded from their study
for causes of hyper-activity, so ... in estimates of resting MR reflects differences in the extent to which
the animal relaxed during bouts of inactivity, then personality should leave ...

... This introduction to the themed issue on Evolutionary and ecological approaches to the study
of personality provides an overview of conceptual, theoretical and methodological progress in
research on animal personalities over the last decade, and places the contributions to ...

... for complex traits and to study how these genes work (ie, functional genomics). Finally, the early
sailors knew their maps were not perfect, but imperfect maps were better than no map at all; it
is in this spirit that we offer the present classification of animal personality, hoping that ...