Boldness suppresses hoarding behavior in food hoarding season and reduces over-wintering survival in a social rodent

The \"pace-of-life\" syndrome (POLS) framework can encompass multiple personality axes that drive important functional behaviours (e.g., foraging behaviour) and that co-vary with multiple life history traits. Food hoarding is an adaptive behaviour important for an animal's adaptation to seasonal fluctuations in food availability. However, the empirical evidence for the relationships between animal personality and hoarding behaviour remains unclear, including its fitness consequences in the POLS framework. In this study, the Mongolian gerbil (Meriones unguiculatus), a social rodent, was used as a model system to investigate how boldness or shyness is associated with food hoarding strategies in the food hoarding season and overwinter survival or reproduction at individual and group levels. The results of this study showed that compared to shy gerbils, bold gerbils had a lower effort foraging strategy during the food hoarding season and exhibited lower overwinter survival, but bold–shy perso..., , , # Boldness suppresses hoarding behavior in food hoarding season and reduces over-wintering survival in a social rodent

[https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.cc2fqz6cs](https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.cc2fqz6cs)

This dataset contains four CSV files, including:

1. **Boldness_data**: a dataset of the elevated-plus maze measurement. All gerbils completed the EPM test twice to assess the repeatability of the bold-shy personality results, and the tests were separated by 1 week.
2. **individual_food_horading_data**: a dataset of the individuals' food-hoarding behavior.
3. **group_food_horading_data**: a dataset of the group's food-hoarding behavior.
4. **survival_and_reproduction_data**: a dataset of the over-wintering survival and reproduction at individual and group levels.
5. **MCMCglmm approach of food hoarding behaviour**: the code of MCMCglmm models for individual foraging behaviour and group foraging behaviour.

##### Description of the data and file structure

All datasets correspond to...