Loose Leaf For Integrated Principles Of Zoology
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Author: Cleveland P Hickman Jr. Emeritus, Susan L. Keen, David J Eisenhour Professor PhD, Allan Larson, Helen I'Anson Associate Professor of Biology
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education
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Chapter 36, Problem 6RQ
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To discuss: Few advantages of sociality in animals.
Introduction: The extent to which an individual animal shows the tendency to associate in social groups and form societies, is called sociality. Any form of interaction occurring due to response generated by one animal to another of the same species is social behavior.
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To state: The reason which explains why many animals successfully live alone.
Introduction: Social aggregations represent only one type of social behavior but, all aggregations of animals are not social. Different animal species show varying degrees of sociality.
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