ReviewBiology letters2022
How to behave when marooned: the behavioural component of the island syndrome remains underexplored.
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- Behavioural, morphological and life-history adjustments in the early steps of colonising restricted semi-natural environments in wild house mice.BMC ecology and evolution · 2026Article
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- Drivers and conservation impacts of innovative tree nesting in an isolated island population of the red-billed chough.Ecology · 2026Article
- Island Syndrome in the Critically Endangered Lord Howe Island CockroachEcology and evolution · 2025Article
- Rethinking raptors: caracaras as a model for avian cognition in the wild.Animal cognition · 2025Review
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- Sea level rise and the evolution of aggression on islands.iScience · 2024Article
- Paradoxical Exception to Island Tameness: Increased Defensiveness in an Insular Population of Rattlesnakes.Toxins · 2024Article
- Evolution of personality and locomotory performance traits during a late Pleistocene island colonization in a tree frog.Current zoology · 2023Article
- Genetics of behavioural evolution in giant mice from Gough Island.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2023Article
- Island-mainland song divergence is decoupled from genetic and geographic distance in silvereyes.Behavioral ecology : official journal of the International Society for Behavioral EcologyArticle
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Abstract
Animals on islands typically depart from their mainland relatives in assorted aspects of their biology. Because they seem to occur in concert, and to some extent evolve convergently in disparate taxa, these changes are referred to as the 'island syndrome'. While morphological, physiological and life-history components of the island syndrome have received considerable attention, much less is known about how insularity affects behaviour. In this paper, we argue why changes in personality traits and cognitive abilities can be expected to form part of the island syndrome. We provide an overview of studies that have compared personality traits and cognitive abilities between island and mainland populations, or among islands. Overall, the pickings are remarkably slim. There is evidence that animals on islands tend to be bolder than on the mainland, but effects on other personality traits go either way. The evidence for effects of insularity on cognitive abilities or style is highly circumstantial and very mixed. Finally, we consider the ecological drivers that may induce such changes, and the mechanisms through which they might occur. We conclude that our knowledge of the behavioural and cognitive responses to island environments remains limited, and we encourage behavioural biologists to make more use of these 'natural laboratories for evolution'.
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