ETOLOOGIA II moodul KONSPEKT
Relationship between cooperation and personality?
· Individual great tits differ in the way they explore a novel environment, and this is
correlated with differences in behaviour towards novel objects.
· Fast explorers are bold, risk-taking and aggressive, while shy explorers are slower, less
risk-taking and non-aggressive
· Personality is expected to cause differences in individual reactions to nest predators and
cooperation with other conspecifics
· Study of bold/shy features while exploring novel objects and mobbing predators in great
tits
o Great tit: territorial bird during breeding season which sometimes breed in loose
groups
o Conclusion of experiment:
Cooperation theory seems to be much more complex than previously
thought
Birds may play tit-for-tat games
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