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Stringham, Stephen F; Rogers, Lynn; and Bryant, Ann (2024) Norms and variance fail to predict butterfly effects on social dynamics by idiosyncratic individuals. Animal Sentience 34(3)
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Karen A. Owens, Gosia Bryja, and Marc Bekoff, Wildlife conservation: The importance of individual personality traits and sentience
Abstract
Adaptations and adjustments to current environmental conditions are manifest in behavioral norms. Knowing norms facilitates population-level prediction, but doesn’t predict individual behavior where idiosyncrasies might trigger “butterfly effects." Knowledge of individual quirks is particularly important for risk assessment and management during close encounters between humans and potentially lethal wildlife, including bears (Ursus spp.). Innovative foraging techniques can alter population vigor and viability. Traits at the tails of a bell curve might hold the greatest potential for adapting to environmental change.
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10.51291/2377-7478.1842
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