Animal personality: what are behavioural ecologists measuring?

Carter, Alecia; Feeney, William; Marshall, Harry H.; Cowlishaw, Guy; Heinsohn, Robert

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Animal personality: what are behavioural ecologists measuring?

Date

2012

Authors

Carter, Alecia

Feeney, William

Marshall, Harry H.

Cowlishaw, Guy

Heinsohn, Robert

Publisher

Cambridge University Press

Abstract

The discovery that an individual may be constrained, and even behave sub-optimally, because of its personality type has fundamental implications for understanding individual- to group-level processes. Despite recent interest in the study of animal persona