One of the most immediate reactions an animal can have toward novel conditions is its behavioral response (Sih et al., 2011).Consequently, it is important to identify behavioral responses that allow populations to successfully navigate novel situations in human-altered habitats. An animal's behavior is often moderated by its behavioral type, or consistency in behavioral response across time and/or contexts, also known as its personality or temperament (Sih et al., 2004). While an organism's behavioral type might influence its own fitness, behavioral type variation in natural populations also affects population dynamics (Sih et al., 2012, Smith & Blumstein, 2008Wolf & Weissing, 2012). For instance, behavioral variation can influence demographic outcomes via differences in survival and reproductive success between behavioral types (Wolf & Weissing, 2012) or impact habitat carrying capacity when behavioral types utilize habitat differently (Spiegel et al., 2017). Behavioral type has also been shown to affect a forager's diet and even its trophic level in a food web (e.g., Bassar et al., 2010). Naturally occurring behavioral variation could help buffer responses to environmental
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