Personality in animals has been extensively researched in recent decades. Temporal
consistency of behaviors is almost always part of the personality definition and is usually …

Behaviours can be adaptively correlated with each other and with other aspects of
phenotype. We investigated behaviour across foraging, mating, and risk contexts in females …

Data on personality for long-lived, highly social wild mammals with high cognitive abilities
are rare. We investigated the personality structure of Asian elephants (Elephas maximus) by …

Members of numerous animal species show consistent inter-individual differences in
behaviours, but the forces generating animal “personality” or individuality remain unclear …

The social environment is expected to have substantial effects on behavior, and as a
consequence, its heritability and evolvability. We investigated these effects by exposing …

Highlights•Behavioural plasticity in response to presence/absence of acoustic sexual
signals.•Changes in sociosexual environment affect the repeatability of …

Individual differences in cognitive ability are predicted to covary with other behavioural traits
such as exploration and boldness. Selection within different habitats may act to either …

Determining the extent of repeatable differences in the behavior of animals and the factors
that influence behavioral expression is important for understanding individual fitness and …

The relations of temperament dimensions obtained in tests traditionally used to assess
interindividual differences with long-term behaviors and social rank of animals are poorly …

Individual differences in aggressiveness, if consistent across time and contexts, may
contribute to the long-term maintenance of social hierarchies in complex animal societies …