The study of individual behavioral variation, sometimes called animal personalities or
behavioral types, is now a well-established area of research in behavioral ecology and …

Covering diverse species from garter snakes to Komodo dragons, this book delves into the
evolutionary origins and fascinating details of the mysterious social lives of reptiles. Reptiles …

Over the years, theoreticians and empiricists working in a wide range of disciplines,
including physiology, ethology, psychology, and behavioral ecology, have suggested a …

The social environment is a key factor that influences behavioural traits across a wide array
of species. Yet, when investigating individual differences in behaviour, studies tend to …

Background The classic optimal foraging theory (OFT) predicts animals' food patch use
assuming that individuals in a population use the same strategy while foraging. However …

Studies on interaction between species are needed to observe and predict the effects of
climate change on species distributions. Here we studied intra‐and interspecific competition …

The biological significance of behavioural predictability (environment-independent within-
individual behavioural variation) became accepted recently as an important part of an …

Shell maintenance and repair are fundamental to reproductive success and survival in
shelled molluscs, yet potential links to other key processes and biological characteristics are …

Individual animals exhibit considerable differences in cognitive characteristics associated
with personality differences. The cognition-personality link was intensively investigated in …

The potential sex-specific differences in animal personality traits (ie, consistent inter-
individual variation in observed behavior) are an active field of inquiry in behavioral ecology …