AP BIOLOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -Social living is common in animals and directly influences important biological processes such as resource acquisition, predator avoidance and social learning. It has also disadvantages like increased competition, risk of infection and diseases, risk of predation, risk of inbreeding and risk for young animals.

Detailed explanation-2: -While there are many benefits to living in a social group there are also significant cons. While animals living in a group are more likely to be able to defend themselves against predators, they also bring more attention to themselves and are more likely to be spotted by a predator, putting their infants at risk.

Detailed explanation-3: -Disadvantages of predation in the ecosystem: Predation kills the young new generation of the animals in the ecosystem leaving behind no longer any new generation for the next generations to come.

Detailed explanation-4: -When animals form groups for survival, they can help each other raise the young, hunt, keep watch, gather food, find shelter, and survive. Animals in groups have more eyes looking for predators or prey. They also have less work to do individually because they can share the workload.