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Evaluating animal personalities: do observer assessments and experimental tests measure the same thing?

Date

Authors

Carter, Alecia

Marshall, Harry H.

Heinsohn, Robert

Cowlishaw, Guy

Publisher

Springer

Abstract

The animal personality literature uses three approaches to assess personality. However, two of these methods, personality ratings and experimentation, have been little compared in captivity and never compared in the wild. We assessed the boldness of wild

Keywords

Keywords: assessment method; behavioral ecology; captivity; foraging behavior; primate; research work; wild population; Animalia; Papio; Papio ursinus Behavioural syndromes; Boldness; Chacma baboon; Personality

URI

http://hdl.handle.net/1885/62608

Collections

ANU Research Publications

Source

Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology

Type

Journal article

DOI

10.1007/s00265-011-1263-6

Restricted until

2037-12-31

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