Neonate personality affects early-life resource acquisition in a large social mammal.

ABSTRACT: Although it is widely acknowledged that animal personality plays a key role in ecology, current debate focuses on the exact role of personality in mediating life-history trade-offs. Crucial for our understanding is the relationship between personality and resource acquisition, which is poorly understood, especially during early stages of development. Here we studied how among-individual differences in behavior develop over the first 6 months of life, and their potential association with resource acquisition in a free-ranging population of fallow deer (Dama dama). We related neonate physiological (heart rate) and behavioral (latency to leave at release) anti-predator responses to human handling to the proportion of time fawns spent scanning during their first summer and autumn of lif

SUBMITTER: Amin B 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9664924 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Sep-Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature