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Risk avoidance behaviours in wild great tits

26 Mar 2018

Personality research suggests that individual differences in risk aversion may be explained by links with life-history variation.

In this study, different risk avoidance behaviours were measured in wild great tits and compared with female reproductive success and condition. Read this, and other recent publications here: Repeatable aversion across threat types is linked with life history traits but is dependent on how aversion is measured 

Caption a) the predator eyes and b,c) novel object displayed on the next box

UCC Ornithology Research Group

School of Biological, Earth and Environmental Sciences, UCC North Mall Campus, North Mall, Cork City,

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