ANIMAL BEHAVIOR
INTRODUCTION
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Question
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The male bird singing and dancing
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The male bird building a nest
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The male meerkat teaching the baby meerkat how to eat a scorpion
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Fights with other birds for a mate
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Detailed explanation-1: -First, the meerkat focuses on the tail, bites the scorpion’s stinger, and discards it. Without its tail, the scorpion cannot attack with its venom. However, there will still be poison in his exoskeleton. To combat this, the meerkats have learned to rub scorpions in the sand to remove any remaining venom.
Detailed explanation-2: -Fact#4-Meerkats are omnivores! Their diet mostly consists of insects, which they sniff out using their enhanced sense of smell. They also eat small rodents, fruit, birds, eggs, lizards and as we’ve seen poisonous scorpions as well as snakes.
Detailed explanation-3: -Most mobs are made up of an “Alpha” male and female, and 8 to 30 mostly related “Beta” members. This is a matriarchal society, with the Alpha female in control, and the Alpha pair usually being the only two animals that reproduce.