10.5061/DRYAD.7HQ7PC7
Altschul, Drew M
University of Edinburgh
Hopkins, William D
Georgia State University
Herrelko, Elizabeth S
Smithsonian Institution
University of Stirling
Inoue-Murayama, Miho
National Institute for Environmental Studies
Kyoto University
Matsuzawa, Tetsuro
Japan Monkey Centre
Kyoto University
King, James E
University of Arizona
Ross, Stephen R
Lincoln Park Zoo
Weiss, Alexander
University of Edinburgh
Data from: Personality links with lifespan in chimpanzees
Dryad
dataset
2019
Chimpanzees
Pan troglodytes
2019-09-10T00:00:00Z
2019-09-10T00:00:00Z
en
https://doi.org/10.7554/elife.33781
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Life-history strategies for optimizing individual fitness fall on a
spectrum between maximizing reproductive efforts and maintaining physical
health over time. Strategies across this spectrum are viable and different
suites of personality traits have evolved to support these strategies.
Using personality and survival data from 538 captive chimpanzees (Pan
troglodytes) we tested whether any of the dimensions of chimpanzee
personality - agreeableness, conscientiousness, dominance, extraversion,
neuroticism, and openness - were associated with longevity, an attribute
of slow life-history strategies that is especially important in primates,
given their relatively long lives. We found that higher agreeableness was
related to longevity in males, with weaker evidence suggesting that higher
openness is related to longer life in females. Our results link the
literature on human and nonhuman primate survival, and suggest that for
males, evolution has favored the protective effects of low aggression and
high quality social bonds.
eLife-chimpLongPersonality, sex, origin, mortality status, and age data
for 538 captive chimpanzees.eLife-chimpRearAdditional subset of data from
chimpanzees for which more detailed rearing information was available.
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