Hunger State and not Personality Determines Task Participation in a Spider Society

This data set was collected by behavioural observations on the Indian social spider Stegodyphus sarasinorum, maintained in the laboratory. The data set consists of identities of spiders attacking prey when individual spiders were fed and starved. The data also consists of two control experiments: (i) Data where spiders were allowed to feed after each trial and (ii) Data where spiders were not allowed to feed after each trial. The data also consists of boldness scores of spiders. Analyses of this data set revealed that individual hunger state of spiders influenced their propensities to attack prey. We find no evidence for personality-mediated task specialization.本数据集通过对实验室饲养的印度社交蜘蛛Stegodyphus sarasinorum的行为观测采集得到。数据集包含个体蜘蛛在饱食与饥饿状态下攻击猎物的身份记录，同时涵盖两项对照实验数据：(i) 每次试验后允许蜘蛛进食的数据集；(ii) 每次试验后禁止蜘蛛进食的数据集。此外，数据集还包含蜘蛛的勇敢性评分（boldness scores）。对本数据集的分析结果显示，蜘蛛个体的饥饿状态会影响其攻击猎物的倾向；未发现人格介导的任务特化现象的相关证据。