Is there a pace-of-life syndrome linking boldness and metabolic capacity for locomotion in bluegill sunfish?

• Published in: Animal behaviour Vol. 121; pp. 175 - 183
• Main Authors: Binder, Thomas R., Wilson, Alexander D.M., Wilson, Samantha M., Suski, Cory D., Godin, Jean-Guy J., Cooke, Steven J.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: London Elsevier Ltd 01.11.2016; Harcourt Brace Jovanovich Ltd
• Subjects: aerobic capacity; anaerobic capacity; anaerobiosis; Animal behavior; behavioural syndrome; Biological variation; byproducts; exercise; Fish; glycolysis; juveniles; Lepomis macrochirus; Life history; locomotion; Locomotor activity; locomotor performance; Metabolism; muscles; Physiology; resting metabolic rate; risk; Risk taking; anaerobic capacity; resting metabolic rate; locomotor performance; aerobic capacity; behavioural syndrome

The concept of behavioural syndromes (i.e. correlations between behavioural traits) has provided an important framework for understanding individual variation in animal behaviour and its link to individual variation in physiology and life-history traits. The pace-of-life syndrome concept posits that...