Authors
Thomas R Binder, Alexander DM Wilson, Samantha M Wilson, Cory D Suski, Jean-Guy J Godin, Steven J Cooke
Publication date
2016/11/1
Journal
Animal Behaviour
Volume
121
Pages
175-183
Publisher
Academic Press
Description
Highlights
- We quantified aerobic and anaerobic metabolisms of bold and shy bluegill sunfish.
- Bold fish had greater maximum metabolic rates and metabolic scopes for activity.
- Bold and shy fish did not differ in resting metabolic rate or anaerobic metabolism.
- Results support a pace-of-life syndrome linking boldness and aerobic capacity.
The concept of behavioural syndromes (ie correlations between behavioural traits) has provided an important framework for understanding individual variation in animal behaviour and its link to individual variation in physiology and life-history traits. The pace-of-life syndrome concept posits that behavioural, physiological and life-history traits coevolve in response to correlated selection pressures, and therefore predicts a positive correlation between boldness (ie exploration and risk taking) and metabolic capacity for locomotor performance in individuals. We tested for a pace-of-life …
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TR Binder, ADM Wilson, SM Wilson, CD Suski… - Animal Behaviour, 2016