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Table 1 Description of test rounds with mean age at the beginning of tests and interval from the preceding test round.

From: Personality over ontogeny in zebra finches: long-term repeatable traits but unstable behavioural syndromes

Life stage

Test round

Age [mean ± SD]

Interval [days]

Subadult

1

56 ± 7

-

 

2

73 ± 8

17 ± 7

Young adult

3

103 ± 5

31 ± 6

 

4

121 ± 5

18 ± 4

Mature adult

5

367 ± 52

247 ± 52

 

6

381 ± 51

14 ± 0