Animal Personalities: Behavior, Physiology, and Evolution

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Ask anyone who has owned a pet and they'll assure you that, yes, animals have personalities. And science is beginning to agree. Researchers have demonstrated that both domesticated and nondomesticated animals-from invertebrates to monkeys and apes-behave in consistently different ways, meeting the criteria for what many define as personality. But why the differences, and how are personalities shaped by genes and environment? How did they evolve? The essays in Animal Personalities reveal that there is much to learn from our furred and feathered friends. Contributors Introduction: Animal Personalities: Who Cares and Why?, Claudio Carere, Dario Maestripieri Part I. Personalities across Animal Taxa Chapter 1. The Bold and the Spineless: Invertebrate Personalities, Jennifer A. Mather, David M. Logue Chapter 2. Evolutionary Perspectives on Personality in Stickleback Fish, Alison M. Bell, Susan A. Foster, Matthew Wund Chapter 3. Avian Personality, Kees van Oers, Marc Naguib Chapter 4. Differential Behavioral Ecology: The Structure, Life History, and Evolution of Primate Personality, Alexander Weiss, Mark J. Adams. Chapter 5. Personalities in a Comparative Perspective: What Do Human Psychologists Glean from Animal Personality Studies?, Samuel D. Gosling, Pranjal H. MehtaPart II. Genetics, Ecology, and Evolution of Animal Personalities Chapter 6. Quantitative and Molecular Genetics of Animal Personality, Kees van Oers, David L. Sinn Chapter 7. What Is the Evidence that Natural Selection Maintains Variation in Animal Personalities?, Niels J. Dingemanse, Denis Réale Chapter 8. Frontiers on the Interface between Behavioral Syndromes and Social Behavioral Ecology, Andrew Sih. Chapter 9. The Evolution of Animal Personalities, Max Wolf, G. Sander van Doorn, Olof Leimar, Franz J. WeissingPart III. Development of Personalities and Their Underlying Mechanisms Chapter 10. Ontogeny of Stable Individual Differences: Gene, Environment, and Epigenetic Mechanisms, James P. Curley, Igor Branchi Chapter 11. Parental Influences on Offspring Personality Traits in Oviparous and Placental Vertebrates, Ton G.G. Groothuis, Dario Maestripieri. Chapter 12. Neuroendocrine and Autonomic Correlatesof Animal Personalities / 353Doretta Caramaschi, Claudio Carere, Andrea Sgoifo, Jaap M. KoolhaasPart IV. Implications of Personality Research for Conservation Biology, Animal Welfare, and Human Health Chapter 13. Animal Personality and Conservation Biology: The Importance of Behavioral Diversity, Brian R. Smith, Daniel T. Blumstein Chapter 14. Personality Variation in Cultured Fish: Implications for Production and Welfare, Felicity Huntingford, Flavia Mesquita, Sunil Kadri.