Morphological Correlates of Personality in Female Asian Particolored Bats (Vespertilio sinensis).

ABSTRACT: Personality traits represent a leading edge in the evolutionary process, as natural selection acts directly on variations in individual phenotypes within populations. Recent theoretical models have focused on the concept of adaptive state-dependent behavior, proposing that repeatable differences in behavior emerge because of individual differences in repeatable state variables, such as metabolic rate, age, sex, or body size. Personality and its correlation with body size, however, have been relatively unexplored in bats. We used female Asian particolored bats (Vespertilio sinensis) to investigate three personality characteristics (exploration, activity, and aggression) using the classic hole-board test and examined their relationships with body size using an information-theoretical approac

SUBMITTER: Wang Y 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7070271 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature