Individual personality predicts social network assemblages in a colonial bird.

ABSTRACT: Animal personalities manifest as consistent individual differences in the performance of specific behavioural expressions. Personality research has implications for zoo animal welfare, as it can further our understanding of how captive individuals may differ in their resource use and provide insight into improving individual and group social health. For group living species, personality may enable assortment based on similar behaviour and influence an individual's interactions with conspecifics (e.g. social support). This research aimed to document how personality traits (aggressive, exploratory, submissive) influenced the social network structure of highly social animals in a captive environment. Data were collected from separate flocks of captive Caribbean (Phoenicopterus ruber) and Chil

SUBMITTER: McCully FR 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9977762 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature