Animal behaviour: task differentiation by personality in spider groups

Lena Grinsted; Jonathan P Bacon

doi:10.1016/j.cub.2014.07.008

Animal behaviour: task differentiation by personality in spider groups

Lena Grinsted, Jonathan P Bacon

Centre for Comparative & Evolutionary Psychology

University of Sussex

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Abstract

In social animals, group efficiency is often assumed to increase with task differentiation, but this requires that individuals are better than generalists at the task they specialize in. A new study finds that individual Anelosimus studiosus spiders do predominantly perform the task they excel at, in line with their individual personality type, when they are placed in groups.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	R749-R751
Number of pages	3
Journal	Current Biology
Volume	24
Issue number	16
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2014.07.008
Publication status	Published - 18 Aug 2014

Keywords

Adaptation, Biological/physiology
Animals
Behavior, Animal/physiology
Female
Models, Biological
Personality/physiology
Psychomotor Performance/physiology
Spiders/physiology

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