personality and weasels Flashcards
what are the 2 dimensions in personality
temperment (fixed) and character
who focused on wolves personality
fentress, mech, woolpy and ginsburg
who focused on domestic cats personality
mendl, feaver
who focused on spotted hyenas personality
gosling
weak nervous system in dogs
melancholic dogs
strong nervous system in dogs
balanced-mobile= sanguine dogs and slow= phlegmatic
unbalanced- crideric dogs
factors of personality -5
shyness/boldness, exploration/avoidance, activity, aggressiveness and sociability
hyenas personality traits- 5
assertiveness, excitability, agreeableness, sociability and curiosity
context dependent personality
behavioural syndrome
4 strategies to study behaviour (bell)
puzzling behaviour
candidate behaviour
proximate
ecological
5 differences for the candidate specific approach
shy-bold axis proactive- reactive axis aggressiveness neophobia exploratory behaviour
bolder males- fitness consequence
increased reproductive success
how many speices of mustelids
56 and 15 in north america
lutra and enhydra
otters, river otter, seat otter
martes
marten and fisher
mustela
weasels (3 species), black footed ferret
neovision
2 speices, american (river) mink, sea mink
taxidea taxus
american badger (europeian species)
gulo gulo
wolverine
skunks 3 genera and 4 speicies
mephitis, concepatus, spilogale
spilogale putorius
spotted skunk (eastern)
domesticated mustelids
domestic ferret 2500 years ago from the european species
short tailed weasel
turns white in the winter
what weasels turn white
snowshoe hare, arctic hare, tundra hare, arctic fox (all year around)
