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| Author | Dall, Sasha R. X; Houston, Alasdair I.; McNamara, John M. | ||||
| Title | The behavioural ecology of personality: consistent individual differences from an adaptive perspective | Type | Journal Article | ||
| Year | 2004 | Publication | Ecology Letters | Abbreviated Journal | Ecol. Letters |
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7 | Issue | Pages | 734-739 | |
| Keywords | Adaptive individual differences, behavioural ecology, behavioural syndromes, evolutionary game theory, life history strategies, personality differences, state-dependent dynamic programming | ||||
| Abstract | Individual humans, and members of diverse other species, show consistent differences in aggressiveness, shyness, sociability and activity. Such intraspecific differences in behaviour have been widely assumed to be non-adaptive variation surrounding (possibly) adaptive population-average behaviour. Nevertheless, in keeping with recent calls to apply Darwinian reasoning to ever-finer scales of biological variation, we sketch the fundamentals of an adaptive theory of consistent individual differences in behaviour. Our thesis is based on the notion that such .personality differences. can be selected for if fitness payoffs are dependent on both the frequencies with which competing strategies are played and an individual`s behavioural history. To this end, we review existing models that illustrate this and propose a game theoretic approach to analyzing personality differences that is both dynamic and state-dependent. Our motivation is to provide insights into the evolution and maintenance of an apparently common animal trait: personality, which has far reaching ecological and evolutionary implications. |
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| Call Number | refbase @ user @ | Serial | 494 | ||
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| Author | Mesterton-Gibbons, M.; Dugatkin, L.A. | ||||
| Title | Toward a theory of dominance hierarchies: effects of assessment, group size, and variation in fighting ability | Type | Journal Article | ||
| Year | 1995 | Publication | Behavioral Ecology | Abbreviated Journal | Behav. Ecol. |
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6 | Issue | 4 | Pages | 416-423 |
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| Abstract | We introduce assessment to the analysis of dominance hierarchies by exploring the effect of an evolutionarily stable fighting rule when there is variation in resource holding potential (RHP) and RHP is not a perfectly reliable predictor of the outcome of a fight. With assessment, the probability of a linear hierarchy decreases with group size but can remain appreciable for groups of up to seven or eight individuals, whereas it decreases virtually to zero if there is no assessment. The probability of a hierarchy that correlates perfectly with RHP is low unless group size is small. | ||||
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| Notes | 10.1093/beheco/6.4.416 | Approved | no | ||
| Call Number | refbase @ user @ | Serial | 447 | ||
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| Author | Rubenstein, D. I.; Hack, M. A. | ||||
| Title | Horse signals: The sounds and scents of fury | Type | Journal Article | ||
| Year | 1992 | Publication | Evolutionary Ecology | Abbreviated Journal | Evol. Ecol. |
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6 | Issue | 3 | Pages | 254-260 |
| Keywords | ommunication – combat – fighting ability – individual identity – signals – information – assessment – displays | ||||
| Abstract | During contests animals typically exchange information about fighting ability. Among feral horses these signals involve olfactory or acoustical elements and each type can effectively terminate contests before physical contact becomes necessary. Dung transplant experiments show that for stallions, irrespective of rank, olfactory signals such as dung sniffing encode information about familiarity suggesting that such signals can be used as signatures. As such they can provide indirect information about fighting ability as long as opponents associate identity with past performance. Play-back experiments, however, show that vocalizations, such as squeals, directly provide information about status regardless of stallion familiarity. Sonographs reveal that squeals of dominants are longer than those of subordinates and that only those of dominants have at their onset high-frequency components. | ||||
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| Call Number | refbase @ user @ | Serial | 506 | ||
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| Author | Podos, J. | ||||
| Title | Early perspectives on the evolution of behavior: Charles Otis Whitman and Oskar Heinroth | Type | Journal Article | ||
| Year | 1964 | Publication | Ethology Ecology & Evolution (EEE) | Abbreviated Journal | Ethol Ecol Evol |
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6 | Issue | 4 | Pages | 467-480 |
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| Call Number | Equine Behaviour @ team @ | Serial | 2293 | ||
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| Author | Dugatkin, L.; Alfieri, M. | ||||
| Title | Tit-For-Tat in guppies (Poecilia reticulata): the relative nature of cooperation and defection during predator inspection | Type | Journal Article | ||
| Year | 1991 | Publication | Evolutionary Ecology | Abbreviated Journal | Evol. Ecol. |
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5 | Issue | 3 | Pages | 300-309 |
| Keywords | Game theory – Tit-For-Tat – predator inspection – guppy | ||||
| Abstract | Summary The introduction of game-theoretical thinking into evolutionary biology has laid the groundwork for a heuristic view of animal behaviour in which individuals employ “strategies” – rules that instruct them how to behave in a given circumstance to maximize relative fitness. Axelrod and Hamilton (1981) found that a strategy called Tit-For-Tat (TFT) is one robust cooperative solution to the iterated Prisoner's Dilemma game. There exists, however, little empirical evidence that animals employ TFT. Predator inspection in fish provides one ecological context in which to examine the use of the TFT strategy. | ||||
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| Call Number | Equine Behaviour @ team @ | Serial | 2177 | ||
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| Author | Dugatkin, L.A.; Godin, J.-G.J. | ||||
| Title | Female mate copying in the guppy (Poecilia reticulata): age-dependent effects | Type | Journal Article | ||
| Year | 1993 | Publication | Behavioral Ecology | Abbreviated Journal | Behav. Ecol. |
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4 | Issue | 4 | Pages | 289-292 |
| Keywords | mate choice, copying, guppy, Poecilia reticulata | ||||
| Abstract | Virtually all studies of mate choice to date have assumed that females choose mates independent of one another. Social cues, however, such as the mate choice of conspecifics, may also play an important role in such decisions. Previous work has shown that female guppies of similar age copy each other's choice of mates. Here we examine the effect of relative age on mate choice copying in the guppy, Poecilia reticulata, and examine whether younger individuals are more likely to copy the mate choice of older conspecifics than vice versa. Results indicate that younger females copy the mate choice of older females, but older individuals do not appear to be influenced by the mate choice of younger individuals. | ||||
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| Call Number | Equine Behaviour @ team @ | Serial | 2181 | ||
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| Author | Polyanskaya, A.I.; Ovchinnikov, V.V. | ||||
| Title | Rate of growth and size of the brain of the horse mackerel | Type | Journal Article | ||
| Year | 1974 | Publication | The Soviet Journal of Ecology | Abbreviated Journal | Sov J Ecol |
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4 | Issue | 3 | Pages | 256-257 |
| Keywords | Animals; Body Weight; *Brain; Ecology; Fishes/*growth & development; Genetics, Population; Organ Size | ||||
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| Language | English | Summary Language | Original Title | ||
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| Notes | PMID:4825911 | Approved | no | ||
| Call Number | Equine Behaviour @ team @ | Serial | 2708 | ||
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| Author | Dugatkin, L.A. | ||||
| Title | Tendency to inspect predators predicts mortality risk in the guppy (Poecilia reticulata) | Type | Journal Article | ||
| Year | 1992 | Publication | Behavioral Ecology | Abbreviated Journal | Behav. Ecol. |
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3 | Issue | 2 | Pages | 124-127 |
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| Abstract | Although predator inspection behavior in fishes has become a model system for examining game theoretical strategies such as Tit for Tat, the direct costs of inspection behavior have not been quantified. To begin quantifying such costs, I conducted an experiment that examined mortality due to predation as a function of predator inspection in the guppy (Poecilia reticulata). Before being subjected to a “survivorship” experiment, guppies were assayed for their tendency to inspect a predator. Groups were then composed of six guppies that differed in their tendency to inspect. These groups were placed into a pool containing a predator, and survivorship of guppies with different inspection tendencies was noted 36 and 60 h later. Results indicate that individuals that display high degrees of inspection behavior suffer greater mortality than their noninspecting shoalmates. | ||||
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| Notes | 10.1093/beheco/3.2.124 | Approved | no | ||
| Call Number | refbase @ user @ | Serial | 526 | ||
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| Author | Eisenberg, J.F.; Kleiman, D.G. | ||||
| Title | Olfactory Communication in Mammals | Type | Journal Article | ||
| Year | 1972 | Publication | Annual Review of Ecology and Systematics | Abbreviated Journal | Annu Rev Ecol Systemat |
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3 | Issue | 1 | Pages | 1-32 |
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| Call Number | Equine Behaviour @ team @ Eisenberg1972 | Serial | 2316 | ||
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| Author | Berger, J. | ||||
| Title | Organizational systems and dominance in feral horses in the Grand Canyon | Type | Journal Article | ||
| Year | 1977 | Publication | Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology | Abbreviated Journal | Behav. Ecol. Sociobiol. |
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| Abstract | 1. Several aspects of the behavioral ecology of feral horses (Equus caballus) were studied in Grand Canyon, Arizona, USA. Most bands contained three to five horses that included one stallion and his harem. Males that did not obtain a harem remained solitary. Throughout the study bands remained stable in composition. 2. Home ranges for all bands decreased in size in successive warm months, probably due to increased ambient temperature and drought. This resulted in greater utilization of spring areas that led to increased interband confrontation and agonistic display. 3. Territoriality was not observed in individual horses or bands, but bands hierarchial in both inter- and intraband structures. Interband stallion dominance was reinforced through posturing and fighting. Intraband hierarchies, as determined by dominance coefficients, were independent of individual size in three of four bands. 4. Indexes of nervousness (NER), calculated while horses were drinking, showed that stallions were less nervous than mares. A low NER was correlated with individuals leading toward drinking areas, whereas a high NER existed in individuals initiating flight although no single horse acted consistently as a leader. 5. Diurnal activity patterns were correlated with ambient temperatures. |
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| Call Number | refbase @ user @ | Serial | 748 | ||
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