Lazy foxes, bold mice: How wildlife personalities shape the world

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Lazy foxes, bold mice: How wildlife personalities shape the world
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The world is full of unusually 'lazy' animals: tunas, tarantulas, frogs, foxes. And they're thriving. How? Endless_Thread's deanwrussll and TheBrockJohnson bring you the story of Lazy Geoff.

Maisie: Yeah. So we actually—.Maisie: Yeah.

Ben: OK, we gotta go! Quick! We’re going up to a small hill, and there are some boxes at the top of the hill. And I’m not sure what’s going to happen.Ben: For the first test, Ivy leads us through the trees, up to the top of a hill, to this tiny clearing. There’s a two-foot tall box without a top in front of us. She moves the mouse that was put into the bag for data collection back into the Ferrari trap, also called an emergence trap.

Alessio: Personality exists because it’s the result of evolution. Natural selection has favored this existence of personality. Ben: But Alessio’s team isn’t just testing personalities. They’re showing that those different personalities affect other living things in different ways. Ben: This is happening all the time. It’s how forests grow and survive. Small, bold mammals moving tree seeds far enough away to survive and thrive.

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