AP BIOLOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -Social grooming is a behavior in which social animals, including humans, clean or maintain one another’s body or appearance. A related term, allogrooming, indicates social grooming between members of the same species.

Detailed explanation-2: -Explanation: Social behaviour is described as interactions taking place between two or more individuals with in the same species.

Detailed explanation-3: -One example of how social behavior is adaptive is aggregation against predators. This concept applies to caterpillars feeding together on a leaf, a herd of wildebeest, schools of fish, and flocks of birds. A landscape filled with solitary wildebeest will offer easy pickings for large predators such as lions (Figure 2).

Detailed explanation-4: -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-5: -Blinking, eating, walking, flying, vocalizing and huddling are all examples of behaviors. Behavior is broadly defined as the way an animal acts. Swimming is an example of behavior.