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| Title |
Shy birds play it safe: personality in captivity predicts risk responsiveness during reproduction in the wild
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| Published in |
Biology Letters, May 2014
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| DOI | 10.1098/rsbl.2014.0178 |
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| Authors |
Ella F. Cole, John L. Quinn |
| Abstract |
Despite a growing body of evidence linking personality to life-history variation and fitness, the behavioural mechanisms underlying these relationships remain poorly understood. One mechanism thought to play a key role is how individuals respond to risk. Relatively reactive and proactive (or shy and bold) personality types are expected to differ in how they manage the inherent trade-off between productivity and survival, with bold individuals being more risk-prone with lower survival probability, and shy individuals adopting a more risk-averse strategy. In the great tit (Parus major), the shy-bold personality axis has been well characterized in captivity and linked to fitness. Here, we tested whether 'exploration behaviour', a captive assay of the shy-bold axis, can predict risk responsiveness during reproduction in wild great tits. Relatively slow-exploring (shy) females took longer than fast-exploring (bold) birds to resume incubation after a novel object, representing an unknown threat, was attached to their nest-box, with some shy individuals not returning within the 40 min trial period. Risk responsiveness was consistent within individuals over days. These findings provide rare, field-based experimental evidence that shy individuals prioritize survival over reproductive investment, supporting the hypothesis that personality reflects life-history variation through links with risk responsiveness. |
X Demographics
The data shown below were collected from the profiles of 14 X users who shared this research output. Click here to find out more about how the information was compiled.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United Kingdom | 4 | 29% |
| New Zealand | 1 | 7% |
| Germany | 1 | 7% |
| Belgium | 1 | 7% |
| Spain | 1 | 7% |
| Indonesia | 1 | 7% |
| Unknown | 5 | 36% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Members of the public | 10 | 71% |
| Scientists | 3 | 21% |
| Science communicators (journalists, bloggers, editors) | 1 | 7% |
Mendeley readers
The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 249 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United States | 4 | 2% |
| United Kingdom | 3 | 1% |
| Netherlands | 1 | <1% |
| Sweden | 1 | <1% |
| Czechia | 1 | <1% |
| Germany | 1 | <1% |
| Romania | 1 | <1% |
| Switzerland | 1 | <1% |
| Spain | 1 | <1% |
| Other | 1 | <1% |
| Unknown | 234 | 94% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 55 | 22% |
| Student > Master | 53 | 21% |
| Student > Bachelor | 37 | 15% |
| Researcher | 30 | 12% |
| Other | 8 | 3% |
| Other | 25 | 10% |
| Unknown | 41 | 16% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 152 | 61% |
| Environmental Science | 20 | 8% |
| Psychology | 8 | 3% |
| Earth and Planetary Sciences | 6 | 2% |
| Business, Management and Accounting | 2 | <1% |
| Other | 13 | 5% |
| Unknown | 48 | 19% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 20. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 16 May 2016.
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