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Personality in the wild

Behavioural traits can influence an individual animal's fitness, and trait combinations can change over its lifetime, according to a study of wild trout during a key period in their development.

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Figure 1: Fishy activity.

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Bell, A. Personality in the wild. Nature 491, 341–342 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1038/491341a

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