No personality without experience? A test on Rana dalmatina tadpoles

Ecology and Evolution
Tamás János UrszánGábor Herczeg

Abstract

While the number of studies reporting the presence of individual behavioral consistency (animal personality, behavioral syndrome) has boomed in the recent years, there is still much controversy about the proximate and ultimate mechanisms resulting in the phenomenon. For instance, direct environmental effects during ontogeny (phenotypic plasticity) as the proximate mechanism behind the emergence of consistent individual differences in behavior are usually overlooked compared to environmental effects operating across generations (genetic adaptation). Here, we tested the effects of sociality and perceived predation risk during ontogeny on the strength of behavioral consistency in agile frog (Rana dalmatina) tadpoles in a factorial common garden experiment. Tadpoles reared alone and without predatory cues showed zero repeatability within (i.e., lack of personality) and zero correlation between (i.e., lack of syndrome) activity and risk-taking. On the other hand, cues from predators alone induced both activity and risk-taking personalities, while cues from predators and conspecifics together resulted in an activity - risk-taking behavioral syndrome. Our results show that individual experience has an unequivocal role in the emergence...Continue Reading

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Mar 5, 2016·The Journal of Animal Ecology·Nicholas DiRienzo, Pierre-Olivier Montiglio
Feb 17, 2018·Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology·M Rohaa Langenhof, Jan Komdeur
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Nov 27, 2018·Journal of Evolutionary Biology·Gábor HerczegNiclas Kolm
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Jan 16, 2020·Ecology and Evolution·Gergely HorváthGábor Herczeg

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