Kate L. Laskowski

TL;DR: Meta-analysis is used to ask whether different types of behaviours were more repeatable than others, and if repeatability estimates depended on taxa, sex, age, field versus laboratory, the number of measures and the interval between measures.

TL;DR: It is demonstrated that individual differences in behaviour explain important differences in survival but not in the direction predicted by theory, which suggests that models predicting behaviour to be a mediator of reproduction-survival trade-offs may need revision and/or empiricists may need to reconsider their proxies of risky behaviours when testing such theory.

TL;DR: It is proposed that an exploitation-induced timidity syndrome should be a widespread pattern in fisheries and argued that the syndrome can be associated with several ecological and managerial consequences for social groups, populations, food webs, fisheries and assessment of stocks.

TL;DR: It is found that substantial individual variation in behaviour emerges among genetically identical individuals isolated directly after birth into highly standardized environments and increasing levels of social experience during ontogeny do not affect levels of individual behavioural variation.

TL;DR: The potential for the social environment to generate and reinforce consistent individual differences in behaviour and provides a potentially general mechanism to explain this type of behavioural variation in animals with stable social groups is demonstrated.