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Yang, S, Zhang, T, Li, Y, Xu, S, Zhang, M, Hu, X, Liu, S, Hu, D and Wronski, T (2021) Identifying personality traits and their potential application to the management of captive forest musk deer (Moschus berezovskii). Applied Animal Behaviour Science, 234. ISSN 0168-1591
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Abstract
Since the 1950s musk deer (Moschidae) are kept in captivity for the production of musk, a glandular secretion used in Chinese traditional medicine and as an ingredient in cosmetics. Most recently, forest musk deer (Moschus berezovskii) raised in captivity were reintroduced to augment depleted wild populations. The most prominent behavioral and social characteristics of musk deer are anxiety, a timid, solitary lifestyle and territoriality, making musk deer difficult to breed. Individual differences in the personality of captive male musk deer could allow breeders to sort bold individuals that are suitable for commercial farming from those with a shy and more timid personality suitable for reintroduction. We attempted to identify what behavioral variables and what novel stimulus tests are the most effective to characterize whether an individual is bold or shy. To measure boldness in 31 adult males, we used a two-step approach: i) using a Principal Component Analysis to identify reference behaviors that are indicative of either a shy or a bold personality, and ii) to establish individual boldness scores based on those reference behaviors and compare them between four novel stimuli. We obtained two ‘bold PCs’ with high axis loadings from behaviors that are typical for curiosity, territorial marking or that represent the ordinary daily activity of a ruminant, as well as three ‘shy PCs’ that received high axis loadings from behaviors that are typical for anti-predator responses, intimidation or displacement behavior.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Uncontrolled Keywords: | Agriculture; Agriculture, Dairy & Animal Science; Behavioral Sciences; Boldness score; Boldness-shyness continuum; Commercial farming; Life Sciences & Biomedicine; Novel stimuli test; Reintroduction; Science & Technology; Veterinary Sciences; Science & Technology; Life Sciences & Biomedicine; Agriculture, Dairy & Animal Science; Behavioral Sciences; Veterinary Sciences; Agriculture; Boldness-shyness continuum; Novel stimuli test; Commercial farming; Reintroduction; Boldness score; 0608 Zoology; 0702 Animal Production; 0707 Veterinary Sciences; Behavioral Science & Comparative Psychology |
| Subjects: | Q Science > QH Natural history > QH301 Biology Q Science > QL Zoology S Agriculture > S Agriculture (General) |
| Divisions: | Biological & Environmental Sciences (from Sep 19) |
| Publisher: | Elsevier |
| SWORD Depositor: | A Symplectic |
| Date Deposited: | 19 Dec 2022 13:06 |
| Last Modified: | 19 Dec 2022 13:15 |
| DOI or ID number: | 10.1016/j.applanim.2020.105168 |
| URI: | https://researchonline.ljmu.ac.uk/id/eprint/18212 |
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