Marine & Environmental Sciences Faculty Articles

Socialites boosted but loners set back in a crowd

ORCID

0000-0001-8225-8344

Document Type

Article

Publication Title

Journal of Experimental Biology

ISSN

1477-9145

Publication Date

3-5-2021

Keywords

costs, sociality, loner

Abstract

People's responses to social situations varies considerably according to their personality type. We span the spectrum from loners to social butterflies and everything in between. And the same is true of other animals. Depending on their lifestyle, they may either be stressed or fulfilled by socializing. Megan Currier and colleagues from Widener University in Pennsylvania, USA, aimed to better understand this idea in wild animals by measuring the energy costs associated with movement in cooperative, socialite fish or antagonistic, loner fish.

DOI

10.1242/jeb.235200

Volume

224

Issue

5

First Page

JEB235200

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