ArticleBiology letters2018
Life-history trade-offs: are they linked to personality in a precocial mammal (
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- Evidence for Environment-Specific Pace-of-Life Syndromes.Ecology and evolution · 2026Article
- Impact of behavioral differences on white-lipped peccary reintroduction success in the Atlantic forest.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Investigating and preventing scientific misconduct using Benford's Law.Research integrity and peer review · 2023Article
- Links between personality traits and problem-solving performance in zebra finches (Royal Society open science · 2022Article
- Life-history trade-offs: are they linked to personality in a precocial mammal (Biology letters · 2018Article
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Abstract
Life-history trade-offs are predicted to contribute to the maintenance of personality variation. Individuals with 'fast' lifestyles should develop faster, reproduce earlier and exhibit more risky behaviours. Evidence for such predicted links, however, remains equivocal. Here, I test how growth rate, timing of maturation, litter size and maternal effort correlate with exploration, boldness, fearlessness, docility and escape latency. I found several links that were predicted by recent theory while others were against theoretical predictions, e.g. fast-growing individuals were more fearful. Thus, while I found personality to be integrated with life history, I cannot fully support recent hypotheses aiming to explain such behaviour-life-history associations.
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