BOTANY

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: -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-3: -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.

Detailed explanation-4: -Maintenance of the cuticle, that physical barrier between an animal and the environment, can be considered the first line of defense against disease. The grooming behavior displayed by vertebrates and insects serve multiple functions, such as care and maintenance of the body surface and sensory organs.

Detailed explanation-5: -Instinct, imprinting, conditioning, and imitation are the four types of animal behavior.