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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Science
Nicola Davis, Science correspondent

Social rules help varied personalities work as a team, fish study shows

The three-spined stickleback (Gasterosteus aculeatus)
A stickleback. The Bristol University team said the results, based on computer models, chimed with observations of animal behaviour. Photograph: Frans Lemmens/Alamy

“Shyness can stop you from doing all the things in life that you’d like to,” the Smiths once sang. However, research suggests that may not be the case when working as a team.

Researchers have found that when animals temper their personalities because of social rules, the efficiency of a group to undertake risky missions – such as foraging for food – is boosted.

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