Personality and predictability in farmed calves using movement and space-use behaviours quantified by ultra-wideband sensors
Individuals within a population often show consistent between individual differences in their average behavioural expression (personality), and consistent differences in their within individual variability of behaviour around the mean (predictability). Where correlations between different personalit...
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| author | Francesca Occhiuto Jorge A. Vázquez-Diosdado Charles Carslake Jasmeet Kaler |
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| description | Individuals within a population often show consistent between individual differences in their average behavioural expression (personality), and consistent differences in their within individual variability of behaviour around the mean (predictability). Where correlations between different personality traits and/or the predictability of traits exist, these represent behavioural or predictability syndromes. In wild populations, behavioural syndromes have consequences for individuals' survival and reproduction and affect the structure and functioning of groups and populations. The consequences of behavioural syndromes for farm animals are less well explored, partly due to the challenges in quantifying behaviour of many individuals across time and context in a farm setting. Here, we use ultra-wideband location sensors to provide precise measures of movement and space use for 60 calves over 40–48 days. We are the first livestock study to demonstrate consistent within and between individual variation in movement and space use with repeatability values of up to 0.80 and CVp values up to 0.49. Our results show correlations in personality and predictability, indicating the existence of ‘exploratory’ and ‘active’ personality traits in farmed calves. We consider the consequences of such individual variability for cattle behaviour and welfare and how such data may be used to inform management decisions in farm animals. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-35a078d744754394998216bd0a1f0c9c2023-04-28T10:52:23ZengThe Royal SocietyRoyal Society Open Science2054-57032022-06-019610.1098/rsos.212019Personality and predictability in farmed calves using movement and space-use behaviours quantified by ultra-wideband sensorsFrancesca Occhiuto0Jorge A. Vázquez-Diosdado1Charles Carslake2Jasmeet Kaler3School of Veterinary Medicine and Science, University of Nottingham, Sutton Bonington Campus, Leicestershire LE12 5RD, UKSchool of Veterinary Medicine and Science, University of Nottingham, Sutton Bonington Campus, Leicestershire LE12 5RD, UKSchool of Veterinary Medicine and Science, University of Nottingham, Sutton Bonington Campus, Leicestershire LE12 5RD, UKSchool of Veterinary Medicine and Science, University of Nottingham, Sutton Bonington Campus, Leicestershire LE12 5RD, UKIndividuals within a population often show consistent between individual differences in their average behavioural expression (personality), and consistent differences in their within individual variability of behaviour around the mean (predictability). Where correlations between different personality traits and/or the predictability of traits exist, these represent behavioural or predictability syndromes. In wild populations, behavioural syndromes have consequences for individuals' survival and reproduction and affect the structure and functioning of groups and populations. The consequences of behavioural syndromes for farm animals are less well explored, partly due to the challenges in quantifying behaviour of many individuals across time and context in a farm setting. Here, we use ultra-wideband location sensors to provide precise measures of movement and space use for 60 calves over 40–48 days. We are the first livestock study to demonstrate consistent within and between individual variation in movement and space use with repeatability values of up to 0.80 and CVp values up to 0.49. Our results show correlations in personality and predictability, indicating the existence of ‘exploratory’ and ‘active’ personality traits in farmed calves. We consider the consequences of such individual variability for cattle behaviour and welfare and how such data may be used to inform management decisions in farm animals.https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rsos.212019animal personalitypredictabilityrepeatabilityinter-individual variabilitymovementspace use |
| spellingShingle | Francesca Occhiuto Jorge A. Vázquez-Diosdado Charles Carslake Jasmeet Kaler Personality and predictability in farmed calves using movement and space-use behaviours quantified by ultra-wideband sensors Royal Society Open Science animal personality predictability repeatability inter-individual variability movement space use |
| title | Personality and predictability in farmed calves using movement and space-use behaviours quantified by ultra-wideband sensors |
| title_full | Personality and predictability in farmed calves using movement and space-use behaviours quantified by ultra-wideband sensors |
| title_fullStr | Personality and predictability in farmed calves using movement and space-use behaviours quantified by ultra-wideband sensors |
| title_full_unstemmed | Personality and predictability in farmed calves using movement and space-use behaviours quantified by ultra-wideband sensors |
| title_short | Personality and predictability in farmed calves using movement and space-use behaviours quantified by ultra-wideband sensors |
| title_sort | personality and predictability in farmed calves using movement and space use behaviours quantified by ultra wideband sensors |
| topic | animal personality predictability repeatability inter-individual variability movement space use |
| url | https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rsos.212019 |
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