Evaluating animal personalities: Do observer assessments and experimental tests measure the same thing?

Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology

Volumn 66, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 153-160

  Carter, Alecia J ^a,b   Marshall, Harry H ^b,c   Heinsohn, Robert ^a   Cowlishaw, Guy ^b  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b INSTITUTE OF ZOOLOGY   (United Kingdom)

^c IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Behavioural syndromes; Boldness; Chacma baboon; Personality

Indexed keywords

ASSESSMENT METHOD; BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY; CAPTIVITY; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; PRIMATE; RESEARCH WORK; WILD POPULATION;

ANIMALIA; PAPIO; PAPIO URSINUS;

EID: 84855187493     PISSN: 03405443     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00265-011-1263-6     Document Type: Article

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