Plasticity, stereotypy, intra-individual variability and personality: Handle with care

Behavioural Processes

Volumn 109, Issue Part A, 2014, Pages 40-47

  Japyassú, Hilton F ^a   Malange, Juliana ^b  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF BAHIA   (Brazil)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABNORMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL WELFARE; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; BEHAVIOR CHANGE; BEHAVIOURAL PLASTICITY; COMPETITION; COPING BEHAVIOR; ECOLOGICAL NICHE; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; ETHOLOGY; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HUMAN; INTRA INDIVIDUAL VARIABILITY; INTUITION; NONHUMAN; PERSONALITY; PLASTICITY; STEREOTYPY; TEMPERAMENT; ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; INDIVIDUALITY;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; HUMANS; INDIVIDUALITY; STEREOTYPED BEHAVIOR;

EID: 84918788028     PISSN: 03766357     EISSN: 18728308     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.beproc.2014.09.016     Document Type: Article

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