Commentary – Social Living/Isolation Affects Mite Personality

Personality expression is shaped by the early experienced social context in predatory mites- A commentary on the Schausberger and Nguyen, 2024 paper by Chiara, 2025 As this paper is a commentary on a previous paper, there are no subheadings thus this post will mainly be bullet points

Animal personality and social niches

Animal personality due to social niche specialization – Bergmueller & Taborsky, 2010 Definitions The evolution of animal personality The intra-specific ecological niche The social environment: a key factor for personality evolution Social conflict generating consistent individual differences Social conflict generating behavioural correlations Adaptive individual differences caused by developmental plasticity Social experience affecting the development ofContinue reading “Animal personality and social niches”