Post date: Apr 27, 2017 8:16:46 PM
An advanced access version of a new co-authored paper is now online at Behaviour Advance access online! It turns out that degus, like many other animals, show consistent between-individual differences in some behaviors (personality) and that different types of behaviors can be correlated (behavioral syndromes). These personality traits might also affect how individual degus choose to assort with others.
Evidence for a behavioural syndrome and negative social assortment by exploratory personality in the communally nesting rodent, Octodon degus
Chock et al. 2017 Behaviour pdf