Temperature helps drive the emergence of different personalities in spiders

Thursday, July 21, 2016 - 14:21 in Biology & Nature

Like people, animals have personalities. And their personalities differ, sometimes hugely, on traits like shyness and aggressiveness. Among the big questions are where those differences come from, why they exist, and how they are maintained. Now researchers from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill have uncovered an unexpected benefit of these personalities: to […]

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