Do bolder parents make better parents in anthropogenically disturbed environments?

What is it about?

Animal personality can influence how individuals tolerate disturbance in their environment. In our study, we found that boldness was a consistent behavioural trait in little penguins, not only across time (nest defence score only) but also across contexts (a penguin’s nest defence score correlated with FID during its first human approach assay). We did not find however any correlation between boldness and breeding success. Our study stress the need to examine multiple personality traits and breeding metrics to gain a better understanding for how these processes interact.

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