Evidence for personality conformity, not social niche specialization in social jays

Kelsey McCune, Piotr Jablonski, Sang-im Lee and Renee Ha

Behavioral Ecology, 2018, vol. 29, issue 4, 910-917

Abstract: We often use the phrase “Birds of a feather flock together†to describe similar people that spend time together. But, is this true for birds? We find that in a species that lives in social groups individual personalities are more similar to group mates than to non-group mates. We found no similarity between mate pairs in a solitary, monogamous species. This suggests that assortment by personality might be important for life in social groups.

Keywords: Aphelocoma; boldness; conformity; personality; social niche specialization (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2018
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