Boldness is influenced by social context in threespine sticklebacks (Gasterosteus aculeatus)

Behaviour

Volumn 144, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 351-371

  Webster, M M ^a,c   Ward, A J W ^b   Hart, P J B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Behavioural syndromes; Bold shy axis; Competition; Flock; Shoal; Social conformity; Social facilitation; Social foraging

Indexed keywords

ANIMALIA; GASTEROSTEUS; GASTEROSTEUS ACULEATUS;

EID: 34547601278     PISSN: 00057959     EISSN: 1568539X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1163/156853907780425721     Document Type: Article

References (36)

1. Baird, T.A., Ryer, C.H. & Olla, B.L. (1991). Social enhancement of foraging on an ephemeral food source in juvenile walleye pollock, Theragra-chalcogramma. - Environ. Biol. Fish. 31: 307-311.
2. Barnard, C.J. & Burk, T. (1979). Dominance hierarchies and the evolution of individual recognition. - J. Theor. Biol. 81: 65-73.
3. Bell, A.M. (2005). Behavioral differences between individuals and two populations of stickleback (Gasterosteus aculeatus). - J. Evol. Biol. 18: 464-473.
4. Bell, A.M. & Stamps, J.A. (2004). Development of behavioral differences between individuals and populations of sticklebacks, Gasterosteus aculeatus. - Anim. Behav. 68: 1339-1348.
5. van Bergen, Y., Coolen, I. & Laland, K.N. (2004). Nine-spined sticklebacks exploit the most reliable source when public and private information conflict. - P. Roy. Soc. Lond. B Biol. 271: 957-962.
6. Brown, C., Jones, F. & Braithwaite, V. (2005). In situ examination of boldness-shyness traits in the tropical poeciliid, Brachyraphis episcope. - Anim. Behav. 70: 1003-1009.
7. Cheverud, J.M. (1996). Developmental integration and the evolution of pleiotropy. - Am. Zool. 36: 44-50.
8. Coleman, K. & Wilson, D.S. (1998). Shyness and boldness in pumpkinseed sunfish: individual differences are context specific. - Anim. Behav. 56: 927-936.
9. Coolen, I., van Bergen, Y., Day, R.L. & Laland, K.N. (2003). Heterospecific use of public information by fish in a foraging context. - P. Roy. Soc. Lond. B Biol. 270: 2413-2419.
10. Coolen, I., Ward, A.J.W., Hart, P.J.B. & Laland, K.N. (2005). Foraging nine-spined stickle-backs prefer to rely on public information over simpler social cues. - Behav. Ecol. 16: 865-870.
11. Day, R.L., MacDonald, T., Brown, C., Laland, K.N. & Reader, S.M. (2001). Interactions between shoal size and conformity in guppy social foraging. - Anim. Behav. 62: 917-925.
12. Dugatkin, L.A. & Alfieri, M.S. (2003). Boldness, behavioral inhibition and learning. - Ethol. Ecol. Evol. 15: 43-49.
13. Galef, B.G. (1988). Imitation in animals: history, definition, and interpretation of data from the psychological laboratory. - In: Social Learning: Psychological and Biological Perspectives (Zentall, T. & Galef, B.G., eds). Lawrence Erlbaum, Hillsdale, New Jersey, pp. 3-25.
14. Godin, J.-G.J. & Clark, K.A.V. (1997). Risk-taking in stickleback fishes faced with different predatory threats. - Ecoscience 4: 246-251.
15. Hollis, K.L., Dumas, M.J., Singh, P. & Fackelman, P. (1995). Pavlovian conditioning of aggressive behaviour in blue gourami fish (Trichogaster trichopterus) - winners stay winners and losers stay losers. - J. Comp. Psychol. 109: 123-133.
16. Jakobsson, S., Brick, O. & Kullberg, C. (1995). Escalated fighting behavior incurs increased predation risk. - Anim. Behav. 49: 235-239.
17. Krause, J. & Ruxton, G.D. (2002). Living in groups. - Oxford University Press, Oxford.
18. Langley, R. (1979). Practical statistics simply explained. - Pan Books, New York, NY.
19. Lehner, P.N. (1996). Handbook of ethological methods. - Cambridge University Press, Cambridge.
20. Lopez, P., Hawlena, D., Polo, V., Amo, L. & Martin, J. (2005). Sources of individual shy-bold variations in antipredator behaviour of male Iberian rock lizards. - Anim. Behav. 69: 1-9.
21. Magnhagen, C. & Staffan, F. (2005). Is boldness affected by group composition in young-of-the-year perch (Perca fluviatilis)? - Behav. Ecol. Sociobiol. 57: 295-303.
22. Metcalfe, N.B. & Thomson, B.C. (1995). Fish recognize and prefer to shoal with poor competitors. - P. Roy. Soc. Lond. B Biol. 259: 207-210.
23. Pitcher, T.J. & Parrish, J.K. (1993). Functions of shoaling behaviour in teleosts. - In: Behaviour of Teleost Fishes (Pitcher, TJ., ed.). Chapman & Hall, London, p. 363-439.
24. Quinn, J.L. & Cresswell, W. (2005). Personality, anti-predation behaviour and behavioural plasticity in the chaffinch Fringilla coelebs. - Behaviour 142: 1377-1402.
25. Reale, D., Gallant, B.Y, Leblanc, M. & Festa-Bianchet, M. (2000). Consistency of temperament in bighorn ewes and correlates with behaviour and life history. - Anim. Behav. 60: 589-597.
26. Sih, A., Bell, A.M., Johnson, J.C & Ziemba, R.E. (2004). Behavioral syndromes: an integrative overview. - Q. Rev. Biol. 79: 241-277.
27. Sinn, D.L. & Moltschaniwskyj, N.A. (2005). Personality traits in dumpling squid (Euprymna tasmanica): Context-specific traits and their correlation with biological characteristics. - J. Comp. Psychol. 119: 99-110.
28. Slotow, R. & Paxinos, E. (1997). Intraspecific competition influences food return-predation risk trade-off by white-crowned sparrows. - Condor 93: 642-650. Valone, T.J. (1989). Group foraging, public information, and patch estimation. - Oikos 56: 357-363.
29. Valone, T.J. & Templeton, J.J. (2002). Public information for the assessment of quality: a widespread social phenomenon. - Philos. T. Roy. Soc. B 357: 1549-1557.
30. Verbeek, M.E.M., Boon, A. & Drent, P.J. (1996). Exploration, aggressive behaviour and dominance in pair-wise confrontations of juvenile male great tits. - Behaviour 133: 945-963.
31. Ward, A.J.W., Thomas, P., Hart, P.J.B. & Krause, J. (2004). Correlates of boldness in three-spined sticklebacks (Gasterosteus aculeatus). - Behav. Ecol. Sociobiol. 55: 561-568.
32. Ward, A.J.W., Webster, M.M. & Hart, P.J.B. (2006). Intraspecific food competition in fishes. - Fish Fish. 7: 1-31.
33. Webster, M.M. & Hart, P.J.B. (2006a). Subhabitat selection by foraging threespine stickle-back (Gasterosteus aculeatus): previous experience and social conformity. - Behav. Ecol. Sociobiol. 60: 77-86.
34. Webster, M.M. & Hart, P.J.B. (2006b). Kleptoparasitic prey competition in shoaling fish: effects of familiarity and prey distribution. - Behav. Ecol. 17: 959-964.
35. Wilson, D.S. (1998). Adaptive individual differences within single populations. - Philos. T. Roy. Soc. B 353: 199-205.
36. Wilson, D.S., Clark, A.B., Coleman, K. & Dearstyne, T. (1994). Shyness and boldness in humans and other animals. - Trends Ecol. Evol. 9: 442-446.