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Research into primate personality and social relationships |
About Primate Personality Net |
Comparative Differential
and Personality Psychology
| Primate Personality Net is a research network at Freie
Universität Berlin,
Germany, dedicated to the
scientific investigation of personality differences and their
influences onto social relationships in primate species. We gratefully
acknowledge funding for 2010-2013 from the Deutsche
Forschungsgemeinschaft DFG (German Science Foundation; grant nr.
UH249/1-1). Individual-specific behavioural patterns - that is personality differences - can be found in a wide range of species including monkeys and apes. From an evolutionary perspective, they are thought to reduce the pressure of competition between members of a species, and to represent a variability reservoir for the species' successful adaptation to future ecological changes. How can we categorise individual-specific behavioural patterns in
primate species? Answering these questions can contribute to our understanding of how and why individual-specific patterns in behaviour emerge in different species and how they influence social relationships. This could also help solving current problems in animal welfare, zoo management and captive breeding, especially in highly endangered species, such as great apes.
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