Fig 2. Personality and temporal patterns in dyadic pair-bonding and encounters.

a: 3D surface showing the LMM fit of the interaction between male personality and weeks since meeting their partner on the relative affiliation score i.e. their social association strength with their mating partner relative to the sum of all their associations (see Methods, and Supplementary Table 4 for full model details). Males with higher personality scores (more proactive) have a faster rate of increase in their relative affiliation to subsequent breeding partner over the increasing time since first meeting them. See Supplementary Figure 4a for female personality. b, 3D surface showing the GLMM fit of the interaction between male personality and week (since the beginning of winter observations) on the number of females encountered (see Methods, and Supplementary Table 5 for full model details). Males with lower personality scores (more reactive) encountered an increasing number of females each week as the breeding season approaches. See Supplementary Figure 4b for female personality.