Personality affects mate choice: bolder males show stronger audience effects under high competition

Bierbach, David; Sommer-Trembo, Carolin; Hanisch, Janina; Wolf, Max; Plath, Martin

doi:10.1093/beheco/arv079

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“…In our first experiment, we considered another context of male mate choice during which individual differences in social responsiveness should also affect the degree to which males alter their choices in response to social information [42]. We investigated so-called 'audience effects' [43,44] during which males alter their mate choice behavior strategically in response to rival presence [45][46][47].…”

Section: Copying Tendencies-part Of a Social Responsiveness Syndrome?mentioning

confidence: 99%

“…However, studies exploring how individual differences in social information use (especially in a mate choice context) relate to individual differences in personality traits are scarce [64] and no study to date has made an attempt to link variation in males' tendency to show MCC to variation in personality traits but see [65] for an investigation of the link between personality and female MCC in zebra finches. In our study, we explored the relationship between male MCC and three behavioral parameters that are widely used to characterize animal personality in fish, namely boldness [66][67][68][69][70], activity [42,68,70,71] and sociability [68,69,[72][73][74].…”

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confidence: 99%

“…To demonstrate that males do not alter their mate choice during two identical, successive mate choice tests without an opportunity for MCC, we first tested n=15 males in a control experiment [42]. In experiment 1, we tested whether males' propensity to copy correlates with the strength of their tendency to respond to rival presence during mate choice by showing audience effects.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…In experiment 2, focal males (mean ± SE standard length, SL: 22.73 ± 0.58 mm) were characterized along three personality axes before they were tested for MCC: boldness as latency to emerge from shelter and enter an unknown area [76][77][78][79], activity in an open field tank [42,80,81] and sociability (i.e., shoaling tendencies) as time spent in the vicinity of a group of conspecifics [72,82,83]. All tests were performed consecutively in the same arena to minimize handling stress.…”

Section: Personality Assessmentmentioning

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“…; Muraco, Aspbury & Gabor ; Bierbach et al . ), suggesting that the activity we measured in the wild can be viewed as a risk‐taking behaviour. Considering that personality traits are often consistent across ontogeny in many animals (Gyuris, Feró & Barta ; Herde & Eccard ; but see Bell & Stamps ), risk‐prone individuals during the juvenile stage likely behave in a similar way during the adult stage, and our results support this idea.…”

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Fast–slow life history is correlated with individual differences in movements and prey selection in an aquatic predator in the wild

Nakayama

Rapp

Arlinghaus

2016

Journal of Animal Ecology

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Fast and slow life histories are proposed to covary with consistent individual differences in behaviour, but little is known whether it holds in the wild, where individuals experience natural fluctuations of the environment. We investigated whether individual differences in behaviour, such as movement traits and prey selection, are linked to variation in life-history traits in Eurasian perch (Perca fluviatilis) in the wild. Using high-resolution acoustic telemetry, we collected the positional data of fish in a whole natural lake and estimated individual movement traits by fitting a two-state correlated random walk model. Prey selection was inferred from stable isotope analysis using scale samples. Life-history traits were estimated by fitting a biphasic growth model to an individual growth trajectory back-calculated from scale samples. Life-history traits were correlated with behavioural traits such as movements and prey selection. Individuals with higher reproductive effort were found to switch more frequently between active and inactive modes and show greater reliance on prey from pelagic pathways (indicated by lower δ C). Further, individuals with faster juvenile growth were found to stay active for a longer time during the adult stage. Our results demonstrate the link between individual behavioural differences and fast-slow life-history traits under ecologically relevant conditions.

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Predation risk and abiotic habitat parameters affect personality traits in extremophile populations of a neotropical fish (Poecilia vivipara)

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Silva

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Ecology and Evolution

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Understanding whether and how ambient ecological conditions affect the distribution of personality types within and among populations lies at the heart of research on animal personality. Several studies have focussed on only one agent of divergent selection (or driver of plastic changes in behavior), considering either predation risk or a single abiotic ecological factor. Here, we investigated how an array of abiotic and biotic environmental factors simultaneously shape population differences in boldness, activity in an open‐field test, and sociability/shoaling in the livebearing fish Poecilia vivipara from six ecologically different lagoons in southeastern Brazil. We evaluated the relative contributions of variation in predation risk, water transparency/visibility, salinity (ranging from oligo‐ to hypersaline), and dissolved oxygen. We also investigated the role played by environmental factors for the emergence, strength, and direction of behavioral correlations. Water transparency explained most of the behavioral variation, whereby fish from lagoons with low water transparency were significantly shyer, less active, and shoaled less than fish living under clear water conditions. When we tested additional wild‐caught fish from the same lagoons after acclimating them to homogeneous laboratory conditions, population differences were largely absent, pointing toward behavioral plasticity as a mechanism underlying the observed behavioral differences. Furthermore, we found correlations between personality traits (behavioral syndromes) to vary substantially in strength and direction among populations, with no obvious associations with ecological factors (including predation risk). Altogether, our results suggest that various habitat parameters simultaneously shape the distribution of personality types, with abiotic factors playing a vital (as yet underestimated) role. Furthermore, while predation is often thought to lead to the emergence of behavioral syndromes, our data do not support this assumption.

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Personality affects mate choice: bolder males show stronger audience effects under high competition

Cited by 39 publications

References 97 publications

Does Individual Variation in Male Mate Choice Copying Reflect Differences in Social Responsiveness?

Does Individual Variation in Male Mate Choice Copying Reflect Differences in Social Responsiveness?

Fast–slow life history is correlated with individual differences in movements and prey selection in an aquatic predator in the wild

Predation risk and abiotic habitat parameters affect personality traits in extremophile populations of a neotropical fish (Poecilia vivipara)

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