The female perspective of personality in a wild songbird: repeatable aggressiveness relates to exploration behaviour

dc.creatorThys, Bert
dc.creatorPinxten, Rianne
dc.creatorRaap, Thomas
dc.creatorDe Meester, Gilles
dc.creatorRivera Gutiérrez, Héctor Fabio
dc.creatorEens, Marcel
dc.date2020-01-14T04:06:36Z
dc.date2020-01-14T04:06:36Z
dc.date2017
dc.identifierThys, B., Pinxten, R., Raap, T., De Meester, G., Rivera Gutiérrez, H. F., Eens, M. (2017). The female perspective of personality in a wild songbird: repeatable aggressiveness relates to exploration behaviour. Scientific Reports, (7), 1-10.
dc.identifierhttp://hdl.handle.net/10495/13132
dc.identifier10.1038/s41598-017-08001-1
dc.identifier2045-2322
dc.descriptionABSTRACT: Males often express traits that improve competitive ability, such as aggressiveness. Females also express such traits but our understanding about why is limited. Intraspecific aggression between females might be used to gain access to reproductive resources but simultaneously incurs costs in terms of energy and time available for reproductive activities, resulting in a trade-off. Although consistent individual differences in female behaviour (i.e. personality) like aggressiveness are likely to influence these reproductive trade-offs, little is known about the consistency of aggressiveness in females. To quantify aggression we presented a female decoy to free-living female great tits (Parus major) during the egg-laying period, and assessed whether they were consistent in their response towards this decoy. Moreover, we assessed whether female aggression related to consistent individual differences in exploration behaviour in a novel environment. We found that females consistently differed in aggressiveness, although first-year females were on average more aggressive than older females. Moreover, conform life history theory predictions, ‘fast’ exploring females were more aggressive towards the decoy than ‘slow’ exploring females. Given that personality traits are often heritable, and correlations between behaviours can constrain short term adaptive evolution, our findings highlight the importance of studying female aggression within a multivariate behavioural framework.
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dc.languageeng
dc.publisherNature Research
dc.publisherEcología y Evolución de Vertebrados
dc.publisherReino unido
dc.rightsAtribución-NoComercial-SinDerivadas 2.5 Colombia
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dc.subjectPerspectiva femenina
dc.subjectPájaro cantor salvaje
dc.subjectAgresividad
dc.subjectComportamiento de exploración
dc.subjectPersonalidad
dc.subjectPersonality
dc.subjectFeminidad
dc.subjectWomen - psychology
dc.subjectPerspectiva femenina
dc.subjectPájaro cantor salvaje
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dc.titleThe female perspective of personality in a wild songbird: repeatable aggressiveness relates to exploration behaviour
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