Personality and performance are affected by age and early life parameters in a small primate.

ABSTRACT: A whole suite of parameters is likely to influence the behavior and performance of individuals as adults, including correlations between phenotypic traits or an individual's developmental context. Here, we ask the question whether behavior and physical performance traits are correlated and how early life parameters such as birth weight, litter size, and growth can influence these traits as measured during adulthood. We studied 486 captive gray mouse lemurs (Microcebus murinus) and measured two behavioral traits and two performance traits potentially involved in two functions: exploration behavior with pull strength and agitation score with bite force. We checked for the existence of behavioral consistency in behaviors and explored correlations between behavior, performance, morphology. We

SUBMITTER: Zablocki-Thomas PB 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5938443 | biostudies-literature | 2018 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature