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SUBMITTER: Martinez-Byer S
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7341514 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Jun
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Martínez-Byer Sandra S Urrutia Andrea A Szenczi Péter P Hudson Robyn R Bánszegi Oxána O
Animals : an open access journal from MDPI 20200601 6
Consistent inter-individual differences in behaviour have been previously reported in adult shelter cats. In this study, we aimed to assess whether repeatable individual differences in behaviours exhibited by shelter cats in different situations were interrelated, forming behavioural syndromes. We tested 31 adult cats in five different behavioural tests, repeated three times each: a struggle test where an experimenter restrained the cat, a separation/confinement test where the cat spent 2 min in ...[more]