Individual personality traits influence group exploration in a feral guppy population

Behavioral Ecology

Volumn 25, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 95-101

  Brown, Culum ^a   Irving, Eleanor ^a  

^a MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Conformity; Exploration; Follower; Leader; Personality; Poeciliids; School

Indexed keywords

CYPRINID; DECISION MAKING; EUSOCIALITY; FERAL ORGANISM; GROUP BEHAVIOR; LIFE HISTORY TRAIT; SCHOOLING BEHAVIOR;

EID: 84890683618     PISSN: 10452249     EISSN: 14657279     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/beheco/art090     Document Type: Article

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