Coping styles vary with species’ sociality and life history: A systematic review and meta-regression analysis

Duckworth, Renée A.; Chenard, Kathryn C.; Meza, Lexis; Beiriz, Maria Carolina

doi:10.1016/j.neubiorev.2023.105241

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“…Recently, we have shown similar sex-specific patterns in plasticity/consistency of stress regulation in the same colonizing population of gerbils: increased glucocorticoid levels in first colonists rapidly dampened with the colonies age in males but remained high across subsequent generations in females (Surkova et al 2024). Therefore, in stress regulation, female colonists showed a reactive strategy associated with high activity of hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axes (HPA), while in behavioural patterns they display a proactive style, supporting the two-tier model (Koolhaas et al 2010; Qu et al 2018; Santicchia et al 2022) and the labile relationships between glucocorticoid and behavioural variation (Duckworth et al 2023). A meta-analysis across 21 species showed that individual hormone levels were only weakly correlated with proactive behavioural traits (aggression, boldness, exploration, and activity), explaining on average only 2% of the variation in personality (Niemelä, Dingemanse 2018).…”

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“…Moreover, a recent meta-analysis revealed that the direction of the link between stress regulation and behavioural traits depends on the species’ life history. In particular, in slow species, bolder individuals show lower stress reactivity, whereas in fast species, bolder individuals have higher stress reactivity (Duckworth et al 2023). The midday gerbil is a small-sized fast-living species with a short life span, early maturation and intense reproduction (Tchabovsky et al 2019a; Yang et al 2020), which may explain why female colonists combine the potentiated HPA activity as an attribute of reactive coping style with a proactive bold behavioural strategy.…”

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Flexible males, proactive females: personality tests show increased boldness/exploration in colonists damping with time in males but not in females

Tchabovsky,

Surkova,

Savinetskaya

et al. 2024

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Individuals colonizing new areas at expanding ranges encounter challenging and unfamiliar environments, suggesting that colonists should differ in behavioural traits from the residents of the source populations. The colonizer syndrome is supposed to be associated with boldness, exploration, activity, and low sociability. We assessed spatial and temporal variation in the colonizer syndrome in the expanding population of midday gerbils (Meriones meridianus). Male first colonists tended to be faster and bolder than residents, although the difference was not significant. Female first colonists were bolder, faster and more explorative than residents. These findings support boldness/exploration syndrome as a typical colonizer trait, which appears to be restricted to females in midday gerbils. Males and females also differed in the behavioural dynamics post-colony establishment. In males, boldness/exploration/sociability peaked in newly founded colonies, then sharply decreased in subsequent generations following decreasing environmental uncertainty in aging colonies. In females, increased boldness/exploration did not lower with time post-colonization, i.e. female colonists retained bold/explorative phenotype in subsequent generations despite facing a less challenging environment. Thus, female colonists, unlike males, carry a specialized behavioural colonizer phenotype corresponding to a proactive behavioural coping strategy. We link sex differences in behavioural traits of colonists to the sex-specific life-history strategies.

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Flexible males, proactive females: personality tests show increased boldness/exploration in colonists damping with time in males but not in females

Tchabovsky,

Surkova,

Savinetskaya

et al. 2024

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“…Coping styles can vary according to ecological and social variables, with different coping styles being adaptive under different conditions (Duckworth et al, 2023).…”

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Disruption of social play influences development of caution in juvenile ground squirrels

Ryan,

Kuan,

Nunes

2024

Front. Ethol.

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Play behavior is common in a range of mammalian species and can have important influences on early development. We evaluated possible influences of social play on the development of behavior along the caution/boldness continuum in juvenile Belding’s ground squirrels (Urocitellus beldingi). We disrupted juvenile squirrels engaged in play by walking toward them until their play interactions stopped. We used undisrupted juveniles and juveniles disrupted while not engaged in play as controls. Caution was measured with behavioral tests during which a human intruder walked toward a squirrel and recorded the distances at which the squirrel first noticed and then fled from the intruder. Rates of social play were lower and play bouts were shorter in play-disrupted juveniles than in undisrupted and nonplay-disrupted juveniles. The distances at which juveniles noticed and fled from an intruder increased across the developmental period in which play primarily occurs, suggesting increases in caution across this interval. Increases in the distances to notice and flee from an intruder did not differ between undisrupted and nonplay-disrupted juveniles, but were greater in these groups than in play-disrupted juveniles. These results are consistent with social play behavior contributing to the development of cautious responses in juvenile U. beldingi.

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Inducing Death Thoughts Reduces the Cortisol Response to Psychosocial Stress Similar to the Effects of Early-life Adversity: A Life-history Perspective

Zakreski,

Juster,

Feneberg

et al. 2024

Adaptive Human Behavior and Physiology

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Coping styles vary with species’ sociality and life history: A systematic review and meta-regression analysis

Cited by 6 publications

References 173 publications

Flexible males, proactive females: personality tests show increased boldness/exploration in colonists damping with time in males but not in females

Flexible males, proactive females: personality tests show increased boldness/exploration in colonists damping with time in males but not in females

Disruption of social play influences development of caution in juvenile ground squirrels

Inducing Death Thoughts Reduces the Cortisol Response to Psychosocial Stress Similar to the Effects of Early-life Adversity: A Life-history Perspective

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