Do animal personalities emerge?

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The evolution of animal personalities is a topic of primary importance in behavioural ecology. An intriguing empirical fact is the consistency of animal responses to repeated stresses or threats. Wolf et al. propose an evolutionary model to explain the emergence of consistent personalities. They show that a population dimorphism for an exploration trait implies the existence of behavioural syndromes, such as...

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