Evidence of personality-dependent plasticity in dairy calf movement behaviours derived from automated data collection.

ABSTRACT: Individual consistency in behaviour, known as animal personality, and behavioural plasticity in response to environmental changes are important factors shaping individual behaviour. Correlations between them, called personality-dependent plasticity, indicate that personality can affect individual reactions to the environment. In farm animals this could impact the response to management changes or stressors but has not yet been investigated. Here we use ultra-wideband location sensors to measure personality and plasticity in the movement of 90 dairy calves for up to 56 days starting in small pair-housing enclosures, and subsequently moved to larger social housings. For the first time calves were shown to differ in personality and plasticity of movement when changing housing. There were sign

SUBMITTER: Occhiuto F 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10600154 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature