Data from: Life history trade-offs: are they linked to personality in a precocial mammal (Cavia aperea)?

Life-history trade-offs are predicted to contribute to the maintenance of
personality variation. Individuals with ‘fast’ lifestyles should develop
faster, reproduce earlier and exhibit more risky behaviours. Evidence for
such predicted links, however, remains equivocal. Here, I test how growth
rate, timing of maturation, litter size and maternal effort correlate with
exploration, boldness, fearlessness, docility and escape latency. I found
several links that were predicted by recent theory while others were
against theoretical predictions, e.g. fast growing individuals were more
fearful. Thus, while I found personality to be integrated with
life-history, I cannot fully support recent hypotheses aiming to explain
such behaviour-life-history associations.