Journal article
Animal personality and pace-of-life syndromes: Do fast-exploring fairy-wrens die young?
ML Hall, T van Asten, AC Katsis, NJ Dingemanse, MJL Magrath, RA Mulder
Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution | FRONTIERS MEDIA SA | Published : 2015
Abstract
The pace-of-life syndrome (POLS) hypothesis for animal personality proposes that variation among individuals in life-history strategies is associated with consistent differences in behavior. We tested predictions of this hypothesis in the superb fairy-wren, Malurus cyaneus, by investigating long-term individual differences in risk-related behaviors (latency to enter a novel artificial environment, exploration, activity and response to mirror image stimulation) and survival. We found consistent differences between individuals in these behaviors (adjusted repeatability of exploration of artificial novel environment = 0.37). Individual differences were consistent over several years and bi-varia..
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Awarded by Australian Research Council
Awarded by Australia and Pacific Science Foundation
Funding Acknowledgements
Ve would like to thank the dedicated teams of volunteers for their efforts in the field, monitoring and catching superb fairy-wrens: K. Allen, M. Belpinati, L. Berthold, E. Capp, A. Domalik, J. Jacobs, K. King, H. Knoper, V. Koos, E. Poslinska, M. Proudman, K. Romano, J. Steele, A. Schreiber, and E. Silva. Thanks to S. Ebeling for scoring nestling behavior from videos, and to M. Yewers and E. McLeod for their early work establishing the study population and developing personality tests. Many thanks also to Y. Araya-Ajoy for training and advice on multivariate statistical analysis in R. This research was supported by funding from the Australian Research Council (Discovery Project grant DP110103120 to RIVI and ND) and from the Australia and Pacific Science Foundation (APSF1204 to Mil).