Personality as a Predictor of Time-Activity Budget in Lion-Tailed Macaques (Macaca silenus).

ABSTRACT: Time-activity budget, i.e., how a population or an individual divides their day into various behaviours and activities, is an important ecological aspect. Existing research primarily focused on group-level time-activity budgets, while individual variations have only been reported recently. However, little is known about how consistent inter-individual differences or personalities influence time-activity budgets. We examined the personalities of lion-tailed macaques (Macaca silenus) and investigated their influence on individual time-activity budgets. The resulting personality traits, namely persistence, sociability, affiliation, and anxiety, were used to predict the three broad categories of the time-activity budget-food-related, active, and resting behaviours. We found that persist

SUBMITTER: Kluiver CE 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9219468 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature