Associations between glucocorticoids and sociality across a continuum of vertebrate social behavior.

ABSTRACT: The causes and consequences of individual differences in animal behavior and stress physiology are increasingly studied in wild animals, yet the possibility that stress physiology underlies individual variation in social behavior has received less attention. In this review, we bring together these study areas and focus on understanding how the activity of the vertebrate neuroendocrine stress axis (HPA-axis) may underlie individual differences in social behavior in wild animals. We first describe a continuum of vertebrate social behaviors spanning from initial social tendencies (proactive behavior) to social behavior occurring in reproductive contexts (parental care, sexual pair-bonding) and lastly to social behavior occurring in nonreproductive contexts (nonsexual bonding, group-level coop

SUBMITTER: Raulo A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6106170 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature