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Table 1 Correlations between behavioural traits.

From: The maternal social environment shapes offspring growth, physiology, and behavioural phenotype in guinea pigs

age

trait

Log (duration of struggling)

Log (latency to leave the hand)

activity

number of calls

Log (latency to reach the mother)

duration of activity

day of birth

log (duration of struggling)

–

     
 

log (latency to leave the hand)

-0.4 (<0.01)

–

    

day 1

activity

0.06 (n.s.)

-0.14 (n.s.)

–

   
 

number of calls

0.07 (n.s.)

-0.16 (n.s.)

0.05 (n.s.)

–

  
 

log (latency to reach the mother)

-0.18 (n.s.)

0.23 (n.s.)

-0.43 (<0.01)

-0.04 (n.s.)

–

 

day 8

duration of activity

-0.09 (n.s.)

-0.02 (n.s.)

0.17 (n.s.)

0.31 (<0.05)

-0.06 (n.s.)

–

  1. Correlations between the different behaviours calculated as Pearson's correlation coefficients with significance levels in brackets up to a level of p=0.08. Non-significant correlations are indicated by (n.s.).