Social familiarity modulates personality trait in a cichlid fish
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Social familiarity modulates personality trait in a cichlid fish.
Personality traits, such as exploration-avoidance, are expected to be adaptive in a given context (e.g. low-risk environment) but to be maladaptive in others (e.g. high-risk environment). Therefore, it is expected that personality traits are flexible and respond to environmental fluctuations, given that consistency across different contexts is maintained, so that the relative individual respons...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Biology Letters
سال: 2012
ISSN: 1744-9561,1744-957X
DOI: 10.1098/rsbl.2012.0500