Developmental Social Isolation affects adult behavior, social interaction, and dopamine metabolite levels in zebrafish – Shams et al. 2017 Introduction Social isolation early in life can have numerous negative impacts in adulthood like altered behavioural, physiological and neural development It is hard to find a subject to use that will not confound the effects ofContinue reading “Early Social Isolation Detrimentally Affects Zebrafish”
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Social Living/Isolation Affects Mite Personality
Early social isolation disrupts adult personality expression in group-living mites – Schausberger and Nguyen, 2024 Introduction A critical social condition is whether or not newborns experience conspecifics during their early development If social isolation occurs very early in life, this can have dramatic adverse impacts on behavioural, physiological and other serious implications For example, socialContinue reading “Social Living/Isolation Affects Mite Personality”
Animal personality and social niches
Animal personality due to social niche specialization – Bergmueller & Taborsky, 2010 Definitions Animal Personality – Consistent differences between individuals in the behaviour across time and context Behavioural Consistency – this means that the behaviour of individuals remains stable over time while each individual specifically does not express the full range of behavioural trait valuesContinue reading “Animal personality and social niches”
