Broader horizons for animal personality research

Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution

Volumn 2, Issue OCT, 2014, Pages

  Koski, Sonja E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Boldness; Exploration; Personality; Sociability; Temperament

Indexed keywords

EID: 84949951392     PISSN: None     EISSN: 2296701X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fevo.2014.00070     Document Type: Article

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