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Animal personalities - Coggle Diagram
Animal personalities
Sam Gosling 1998- Hyenas
Analysed 60 personalities
5 aggregate traits
Human-directed aggreeableness
Sociability
Excitability
Curiosity
Assertiveness
Examined whether these traits correlated with age, sex, rank
Age or Dominance didn't correlate
Compared with studies of Rhesus monkeys and gorillas
Hyenas and nonhuman primates shared personality traits
Thus cross-species commonalities
Ruff personality
Independent males form leks
Satellite males
Differ in body mass and colouration
Male mating strategy not inherited via sex chromosome
Females just don't express phenotype
Castrated males can't display this, linked to testosterone.
Mather and Anderson 1993
Personality in squids and octopuses
Responses to alert
Threat
Feed
3 components of personality
Anxious vs calm
bold vs inhibited
Active vs Inactive
Accounted for 45% of behaviour
Cultural transmission in chimps
Different suites of behaviour used per chimp population
Proactive and Reactive