Table 5.2.

Summary and definitions of commonly used terms associated with socioecology and personality in the context of host–parasite interactions of bats

Term	Definition	Source
Social structure	The composition of groups and the spatial distribution of individuals.	Whitehead (2008)
Social organization	Size, sexual composition, and spatiotemporal cohesion of a society.	Whitehead (2008)
Social system	Set of conspecific animals that interact regularly and more so with each other than with members of other such societies.	Whitehead (2008)
Society	A group of individuals belonging to the same species and organized in a cooperative manner.	Wilson (1975)
Colony	Characterization of roosting associations of bats, which may or may not maintain body contact with each other in a communal roost. ‘Colony’ is commonly used for females breeding communally in maternity colonies.	Kerth (2008)
Aggregation	Anonymous assemblage of individuals at the same place. Bats in aggregations show no social bonds and do not engage in cooperative or other affiliate social interactions.	Kerth (2008)
Gregarious	An individual’s tendency to associate with conspecifics.	Godde et al. (2013)
Sociability	An individual’s reaction to the presence or absence of conspecifics. Sociability ranges along a continuum and sociable individuals tend to seek the presence of conspecifics while unsociable tend to avoid conspecifics.	Réale et al. (2007)
Activity	The general level of activity of an individual.	Réale et al. (2007)
Exploration	An individual’s reaction to a novel object or situation.	Réale et al. (2007)