Wallflower or daredevil: Personality of male primates changes throughout life

Thursday, March 8, 2012 - 12:31 in Biology & Nature

One individual is wild and audacious, the other one shy and cautious. It is widely unknown why there are major differences in personality even within a species. Scientists have now studied how male mouse lemurs are shy when young and grow more audacious as they age. Females remain about the same throughout their lifecycle.

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