1. Do animal personalities emerge?
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Associations and basis of personality, life-history and social interactions
During recent years, studies of animal personalities and behavioural syndromes have received a wide attention among behavioural ecologists. One of the key aims of the field has been to understand the emergence and maintenance of animal personalities in independent populations. Animal personality is defined as consistent betweenindividual differences in behaviour across time and / or across cont...
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