Comparative Personality Traits Assessment of Three Species of Communally Housed Captive Penguins.

ABSTRACT: Understanding animal personalities has notable implications in the ecology and evolution of animal behavior, but personality studies can also be useful in optimizing animal management, with the aim of improving health and well-being, and optimizing reproductive success, a fundamental factor in the species threatened with extinction. Modern zoos are increasingly being structured with enclosures that host different species, which permanently share spaces. This condition has undeniable positive aspects, but, in some species, it could determine the appearance of collective or synchronized behaviors. The aim of this study was to verify, in a colony of three species of communally housed penguins (Pygoscelis papua, Aptenodytes patagonicus and Eudyptes moseleyi), through a trait-rating assessment,

SUBMITTER: Quintavalle Pastorino G 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6616866 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature