Individual differences in behavioral consistency are related to sequential access to resources and body condition in a producer-scrounger game

Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution

Volumn 2, Issue MAY, 2014, Pages

  David, Morgan ^a,b,c,h   Le Hô, Mewen ^d   Laskowski, Kate L ^e   Salignon, Marion ^b   Gillingham, Mark A F ^b,f,g   Giraldeau, Luc Alain ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DU QUÉBEC À MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE BOURGOGNE   (France)

^c UNIVERSITY OF EXETER   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^e LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE OF FRESHWATER ECOLOGY AND INLAND FISHERIES   (Germany)

^f LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE FOR ZOO AND WILDLIFE RESEARCH   (Germany)

^g STATION BIOLOGIQUE DE LA TOUR DU VALAT   (France)

^h UNIVERSITY OF ANTWERP   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Behavioral flexibility; Body condition; Exploration; Intra individual variability; Personality; Social foraging; State dependence; Taeniopygia guttata

Indexed keywords

EID: 84994447742     PISSN: None     EISSN: 2296701X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fevo.2014.00019     Document Type: Article

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