Personality Variation in Little Brown Bats
| Autor: | Mary E. Timonin, Craig K. R. Willis, Allyson K. Menzies, Liam P. McGuire |
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| Rok vydání: | 2013 |
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0106 biological sciences media_common.quotation_subject Swarming (honey bee) lcsh:Medicine Biology 010603 evolutionary biology 01 natural sciences Little Brown Bat -- Psychology Chiroptera Behavioral ecology Animals Personality 0501 psychology and cognitive sciences 050102 behavioral science & comparative psychology Big Five personality traits lcsh:Science media_common Multidisciplinary Ecology lcsh:R 05 social sciences 15. Life on land Myotis lucifugus biology.organism_classification Taxon Trait lcsh:Q Female Temperament Research Article |
| Zdroj: | PLoS ONE PLoS ONE, Vol 8, Iss 11, p e80230 (2013) |
| ISSN: | 1932-6203 |
| DOI: | 10.1371/journal.pone.0080230 |
| Popis: | Animal personality or temperament refers to individual differences in behaviour that are repeatable over time and across contexts. Personality has been linked to life-history traits, energetic traits and fitness, with implications for the evolution of behaviour. Personality has been quantified for a range of taxa (e.g., fish, songbirds, small mammals) but, so far, there has been little work on personality in bats, despite their diversity and potential as a model taxon for comparative studies. We used a novel environment test to quantify personality in little brown bats (Myotis lucifugus) and assess the short-term repeatability of a range of behaviours. We tested the hypothesis that development influences values of personality traits and predicted that trait values associated with activity would increase between newly volant, pre-weaning young-of-the-year (YOY) and more mature, self-sufficient YOY. We identified personality dimensions that were consistent with past studies of other taxa and found that these traits were repeatable over a 24-hour period. Consistent with our prediction, older YOY captured at a fall swarming site prior to hibernation had higher activity scores than younger YOY bats captured at a maternity colony, suggesting that personality traits vary as development progresses in YOY bats. Thus, we found evidence of short-term consistency of personality within individuals but with the potential for temporal flexibility of traits, depending on age. "Funding was provided by a Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (NSERC) Canada Graduate Scholarship to AKM and post-doctoral fellowship to LPM as well as grants to CKRW from NSERC, the Canada Foundation for Innovation, the Manitoba Research and Innovation Fund and Manitoba Hydro Forest Enhancement Program." https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0080230 |
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