AP BIOLOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -animal social behaviour, the suite of interactions that occur between two or more individual animals, usually of the same species, when they form simple aggregations, cooperate in sexual or parental behaviour, engage in disputes over territory and access to mates, or simply communicate across space.

Detailed explanation-2: -Summary. Types of animal behavior include social behaviors such as cooperation and communication. Competition may lead to aggressive behaviors or displays of aggression.

Detailed explanation-3: -There are five different types of social behavior among animals. These include aggressive, mutualistic, cooperative, altruistic, and parental, which are all based on the type of animal behavior.

Detailed explanation-4: -Introduction. Social animals including humans live in groups to optimise the multiplicative benefits of social interactions such as protection, coordination, cooperation, access to information, and fitness, while balancing the competition, disease risk, and stress costs of group living1, 2, 3.

Detailed explanation-5: -Groups can help animals defend themselves. One of the main reasons animals form groups is to defend themselves. When there are more individuals in the group, there are more pairs of eyes to look out for danger. Meerkats stand up to look around for predators, mainly big birds, that might attack the group.