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A behavior where an animal reduces its own fitness and survival to benefit other organisms.

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Common Characterstics of Altruistic Behaviors

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Common Characterstics of Altruistic Behaviors

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Honey bees will sting their opponent if their hive is potentially threatened. Stinging their opponent leads to their death. Honey bees show this altruistic behavior in order to protect their hive. They are willing to sacrifice themselves in order for the survival of the other bees.

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Vervet monkeys will emit a warning call to the rest of group when they see a predator. This provides other monkeys to hide and stay as far as possible from the predator. Unfortunately, it brings attention to the vervet monkey who emitted the warning call. Vervet monkeys risk their life and chances of survival to benefit their troops.

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Altruistic behavior can benefit living things as a whole. It can benefit social groups by giving them an advantage over the animal that is reducing its own fitness. The organisms in need have a higher chance of survival and a higher chance of reproducing. Altruistic behavior can not only benefit other organisms but it can also benefit the animal acting as the benefactor. It can help them by the organism in need returning the aid to the benefactor. It's perfect, harmonized balance.

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Altruistic behavior causes organisms to put themselves at risk for the good of other members of the species. Doing this can also benefit the survival of social groups and pass on altruistic genes to their offspring. Natural selection favors altruistic genes due to the bearer potentially giving the gene to the next generation. Simply, the adaptive significance of altruism is to increase prevalence  of alleles shared commonly by members of the species. Altruistic behavior can help organisms adapt into their environment and have higher chance of survival based on the benefits of other organisms.

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