Personality differences are related to long-term stress reactivity in a population of wild eastern chipmunks, Tamias striatus

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 84, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 1071-1079

  Montiglio, Pierre Olivier ^a   Garant, Dany ^b   Pelletier, Fanie ^b   Réale, Denis ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DU QUÉBEC À MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE SHERBROOKE   (Canada)

Author keywords

Coping style; Faecal cortisol; Field endocrinology; Parasympathetic activity; Personality; Tamias striatus

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIORAL RESPONSE; ENDOCRINOLOGY; LONG-TERM CHANGE; NEUROLOGY; PHYSIOLOGICAL RESPONSE; PRIMATE; WILD POPULATION;

ANIMALIA; TAMIAS; TAMIAS STRIATUS;

EID: 84866895578     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2012.08.010     Document Type: Article

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