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Space-use and sociability are not related to public-information use in ninespine sticklebacks

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Date
06/2015
Author
Webster, Michael Munro
Laland, Kevin Neville
Funder
NERC
European Research Council
Grant ID
NE/D010365/1
Keywords
Behavioural syndrome
Bold-shy
Innovation
Producer-scrounger
Social learning strategies
Temperament
QH301 Biology
Animal Science and Zoology
Aquatic Science
Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics
NDAS
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Abstract
There has been much recent interest in both public information use, and the evolutionary origins and ecological consequences of animal personalities but surprisingly little integration of these two fields. Personality traits may impact upon the extent to which individuals respond to public information in a number of different ways. As a first step towards addressing some of these questions, in this study, we asked whether personality traits predicted public information use in ninespine sticklebacks (Pungitius pungitius). Over a 33-day period, subjects were scored twice for a number of behavioural traits, including measures of activity, exploration and shoaling tendency, and were exposed multiple times to a public information use foraging task, in which they were required to select the richer of two prey patches based upon the foraging success of two demonstrator groups. The repeatable (r=0.38–0.58) behavioural traits were reduced to two principle components describing space use and sociability. Neither of these was found to be related to either of two measures of public information use. While the personality traits that we considered did not co-vary with public information use in this species, they may well indirectly affect opportunity for exposure to public information, and this is an obvious avenue for further research.
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Webster , M M & Laland , K N 2015 , ' Space-use and sociability are not related to public-information use in ninespine sticklebacks ' , Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology , vol. 69 , no. 6 , pp. 895-907 . https://doi.org/10.1007/s00265-015-1901-5
Publication
Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology
Status
Peer reviewed
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/s00265-015-1901-5
ISSN
0340-5443
Type
Journal article
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Copyright Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2015. The final publication is available at Springer via http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00265-015-1901-5
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URL
http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00265-015-1901-5
URI
http://hdl.handle.net/10023/8444

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