It is now well established that individuals can differ consistently in their average levels of
behaviour across different contexts. There have recently been calls to apply the same …

Individually distinctive behavioral traits, or personalities, contribute to population-level
processes and ecological interactions important in applied wildlife conservation research …

Interest in individual differences in animal behavioural plasticities has surged in recent
years, but research in this area has been hampered by semantic confusion as different …

Cognition is defined as the processes by which animals collect, retain and use information
from their environment to guide their behaviour. Thus cognition is essential in a wide range …

In the past decade, several conceptual papers have linked variation in animal personality to
variation in cognition, and recent years have seen a flood of empirical studies testing this …

There is growing evidence that individuals within populations show consistent differences in
their behaviour across contexts (personality), and that personality is associated with the …

Patterns of individual differences in cognition have been studied empirically and
systematically in the last decade, but causes and consequences of this variation are still …

Behavioural traits generally and cognitive traits in particular are relatively understudied in an
evolutionary ecological context. One reason for this is that such traits are often difficult to …

Highlights•We test the effects of personality on the use of social information by fish.•Bolder
guppies use social information to infer potential patch depletion.•Highly social guppies …

Understanding individual differences in cognitive performance is a major challenge to
animal behaviour and cognition studies. We used the Eastern water skink (Eulamprus …