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Table 2 Repeatabilities of PC axes, with their 95% confidence intervals, within and across the three life stages, calculated for all individuals and separately for the sexes.

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

  

Subadult (1-2)

Young adult (3-4)

Mature adult (5-6)

Across life stages (1-6)

Long interval (1 vs 6)

Personality trait

Sex

R

CI (95%)

p

R

CI (95%)

p

R

CI (95%)

p

R

CI (95%)

p

R

CI (95%)

p

Fearlessness

                
 

both

0.47

0.20-0.66

0.001

0.50

0.25-0.69

0.001

0.67

0.50-0.80

0.001

0.52

0.37-0.63

0.001

0.50

0.24-0.68

0.001

 

males

0.42

0.03-0.71

0.022

0.46

0.08-0.74

0.008

0.68

0.32-0.85

0.001

0.52

0.31-0.67

0.001

0.55

0.19-0.78

0.005

 

females

0.51

0.17-0.74

0.01

0.58

0.23-0.79

0.003

0.68

0.40-0.84

0.001

0.52

0.31-0.67

0.001

0.47

0.10-0.73

0.009

Exploration

                
 

both

0.38

0.10-0.59

0.013

0.48

0.23-0.67

0.001

0.37

0.10-0.61

0.005

0.28

0.14-0.40

0.001

0.10

0-0.38

> 0.05

 

males

0.21

0-0.58

> 0.05

0.23

0-0.59

> 0.05

0.43

0.004-0.70

0.026

0.05

0-0.19

>0.05

0.00

0-0.44

> 0.05

 

females

0.41

0.04-0.69

0.028

0.60

0.29-0.79

0.002

0.25

0-0.58

>0.05

0.36

0.15-0.52

0.001

0.21

0-0.54

> 0.05

Boldness

                
 

both

0.28

0-0.53

0.018

0.16

0-0.42

> 0.05

0.11

0-0.38

> 0.05

0.03

0-0.12

> 0.05

0.04

0-0.29

> 0.05

 

males

0.25

0-0.61

> 0.05

0.12

0-0.53

>0.05

0.24

0-0.60

>0.05

0.09

0-0.25

> 0.05

0.00

0-0.39

> 0.05

 

females

0.30

0-0.61

> 0.05

0.20

0-0.55

>0.05

0.00

0-0.40

>0.05

0.00

0-0.11

>0.05

0.12

0-0.48

> 0.05

Activity

                
 

both

0.57

0.35-0.74

0.001

0.19

0-0.46

> 0.05

0.10

0-0.37

> 0.05

0.17

0.05-0.29

0.001

0.20

0-0.44

0.08

 

males

0.70

0.39-0.86

0.002

0.00

0-0.40

>0.05

0.04

0-0.45

> 0.05

0.12

0-0.27

0.042

0.19

0-0.57

> 0.05

 

females

0.48

0.13-0.72

0.011

0.34

0-0.64

0.046

0.13

0-0.51

> 0.05

0.20

0.04-0.36

0.002

0.22

0-0.55

> 0.05

Aggression

                
 

both

0.14

0-0.41

> 0.05

0.29

0-0.52

0.021

0.24

0-0.51

> 0.05

0.23

0.10-0.35

0.001

0.16

0-0.44

> 0.05

 

males

0.00

0-0.04

> 0.05

0.31

0-0.66

> 0.05

0.10

0-0.48

> 0.05

0.10

0-0.26

0.03

0.05

0-0.45

> 0.05

 

females

0.34

0-0.64

0.044

0.29

0-0.58

> 0.05

0.36

0-0.67

0.038

0.33

0.14-0.50

0.001

0.26

0-0.59

> 0.05

  1. Significant repeatability estimates are in bold.