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Individual personalities predict social behaviour in wild networks of great tits (Parus major)

L M Aplin1, D R Farine, J Morand-Ferron

  • 1Edward Grey Institute of Field Ornithology, University of Oxford, Oxford, OX1 3PS, UK; Research School of Biology, Australian National University, Acton, 0200, Australia.

Ecology Letters
|September 20, 2013
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Behavioural syndromeParidaepersonalitysocial behavioursocial network theory

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