UMaine research on animal personalities featured on WFVX
WFVX (Fox 22/Channel 7 Bangor) featured research conducted at the University of Maine about how animals’ personalities impact the way they shape the environment around them. Allison Brehm, a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Wildlife, Fisheries and Conservation Biology at the UMaine and principal author of the study, explained that deer mice who are bolder on average are more likely to cache large seeds intact, giving the seed a better chance at germinating. Timid individuals however would take the seeds to underground burrows, effectively eliminating the seed’s chance to germinate.