Revathe Thillaikumar
@revathe.bsky.social
Marie Curie Postdoctoral Fellow @ the Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior | PhD @ JNCASR, India | sociality, learning, development, culture | Asian elephants & great apes | she/her | publishing name: T Revathe
We then fit 2 sets of models - one where we controlled for all the known confounding effects and one where we didn't. Not controlling for them led to false +ve or false -ve individual variation. There are a lot of factors that can affect the estimation of individual variation or "personality"!
May 14, 2025 at 6:31 AM
We then fit 2 sets of models - one where we controlled for all the known confounding effects and one where we didn't. Not controlling for them led to false +ve or false -ve individual variation. There are a lot of factors that can affect the estimation of individual variation or "personality"!
So, on average, mothers are different from one another, but what about their behavioural trajectories - or plasticity - during infant development? Well, we found that mothers consistently differed from one another in how they adjusted their behaviour as their infants grew!
May 14, 2025 at 6:31 AM
So, on average, mothers are different from one another, but what about their behavioural trajectories - or plasticity - during infant development? Well, we found that mothers consistently differed from one another in how they adjusted their behaviour as their infants grew!
We show that over the developmental period (~8 years), mothers differ from one another in four maternal behaviours. They remained consistent in these differences across their different infants and even when we accounted for the various predictors of maternal behaviour.
May 14, 2025 at 6:31 AM
We show that over the developmental period (~8 years), mothers differ from one another in four maternal behaviours. They remained consistent in these differences across their different infants and even when we accounted for the various predictors of maternal behaviour.
Calves interacted similarly with their mothers & escorts under different contexts & almost never interacted with other females. Remarkable similarities existed bw mothers' & escorts' behaviors towards calves. These results suggest that calves form differentiated relationships from a young age.
May 4, 2025 at 9:12 AM
Calves interacted similarly with their mothers & escorts under different contexts & almost never interacted with other females. Remarkable similarities existed bw mothers' & escorts' behaviors towards calves. These results suggest that calves form differentiated relationships from a young age.