Food, sex and predators: animal personality persists with multidimensional plasticity across complex environments

Dosmann, Andy; Mateo, Jill M.

doi:10.1016/j.anbehav.2014.01.011

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“…Therefore we consider that our method of perceived risk assessment may have underestimated the stress induced by the predation treatments, given that the levels of metabolites measured were highly affected by the circadian cycle. It is unlikely that reduced corticosterone levels are due to acclimation to the testing procedure, predation defence is highly repeatable [46,47], and habituation is not likely to cause fear extinction [48].…”

Section: Predation Riskmentioning

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Behavioural and physiological responses of wood mice (Apodemus sylvaticus) to experimental manipulations of predation and starvation risk

Monarca

Mathias

Speakman

2015

Physiology & Behavior

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Section: Predation Riskmentioning

confidence: 99%

Behavioural and physiological responses of wood mice (Apodemus sylvaticus) to experimental manipulations of predation and starvation risk

Monarca

Mathias

Speakman

2015

Physiology & Behavior

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“…responses to different concentrations of predator odour) may depend on the current values of other external stimuli (e.g. the presence or absence of nearby conspecifics, see 'multi-dimensional plasticity: Westneat et al, 2011;Dosmann & Mateo, 2014).…”

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Individual differences in behavioural plasticities

2015

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Interest in individual differences in animal behavioural plasticities has surged in recent years, but research in this area has been hampered by semantic confusion as different investigators use the same terms (e.g. plasticity, flexibility, responsiveness) to refer to different phenomena. The first goal of this review is to suggest a framework for categorizing the many different types of behavioural plasticities, describe examples of each, and indicate why using reversibility as a criterion for categorizing behavioural plasticities is problematic. This framework is then used to address a number of timely questions about individual differences in behavioural plasticities. One set of questions concerns the experimental designs that can be used to study individual differences in various types of behavioural plasticities. Although within-individual designs are the default option for empirical studies of many types of behavioural plasticities, in some situations (e.g. when experience at an early age affects the behaviour expressed at subsequent ages), 'replicate individual' designs can provide useful insights into individual differences in behavioural plasticities. To date, researchers using within-individual and replicate individual designs have documented individual differences in all of the major categories of behavioural plasticities described herein. Another important question is whether and how different types of behavioural plasticities are related to one another. Currently there is empirical evidence that many behavioural plasticities [e.g. contextual plasticity, learning rates, IIV (intra-individual variability), endogenous plasticities, ontogenetic plasticities) can themselves vary as a function of experiences earlier in life, that is, many types of behavioural plasticity are themselves developmentally plastic. These findings support the assumption that differences among individuals in prior experiences may contribute to individual differences in behavioural plasticities observed at a given age. Several authors have predicted correlations across individuals between different types of behavioural plasticities, i.e. that some individuals will be generally more plastic than others. However, empirical support for most of these predictions, including indirect evidence from studies of relationships between personality traits and plasticities, is currently sparse and equivocal. The final section of this review suggests how an appreciation of the similarities and differences between different types of behavioural plasticities may help theoreticians formulate testable models to explain the evolution of individual differences in behavioural plasticities and the evolutionary and ecological consequences of individual differences in behavioural plasticities.

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“…In this experiment we used refuge use as a measure of antipredator behaviour (Dosmann & Mateo, 2014). The refuge use test was conducted as a 10 min trial separate from the activity and exploration measurements.…”

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Evidence for a mechanism of phenotypic integration of behaviour and innate immunity in a wild rodent: implications for animal personality and ecological immunology

2015

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Food, sex and predators: animal personality persists with multidimensional plasticity across complex environments

Cited by 21 publications

References 46 publications

Behavioural and physiological responses of wood mice (Apodemus sylvaticus) to experimental manipulations of predation and starvation risk

Behavioural and physiological responses of wood mice (Apodemus sylvaticus) to experimental manipulations of predation and starvation risk

Individual differences in behavioural plasticities

Evidence for a mechanism of phenotypic integration of behaviour and innate immunity in a wild rodent: implications for animal personality and ecological immunology

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