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What are the characteristics of social behavior?

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What are the characteristics of social behavior?

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Some characteristics of social behavior are sticking together with a couple of organisms, helping a member of their species if they are in trouble, like fighting a predator or hunting, and putting other organisms before themselves even if it means they are hurting their survival.

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Social behavior is how organisms interact with each other, typically within the same species.

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Animals do this for the survival of their own population or species. Some animals don't really interact socially with each other. They fend for themselves. But, other animals, like wolves and their packs, they look out for each other and will do things for them even if it means risking their own survival.

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It is adaptive because it improves their overall fitness. This is adaptive because it helps their attacking or defending of predators. Wolves hunt in packs and they stay in packs to help their hunting of prey. There are other animals that stay in packs or herds or swarms as well. Some fish, stay in gigantic swarms in the ocean to make themselves look bigger. This helps their overall fitness greatly.

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I think that this is a very smart thing to do to keep their species thriving. Organisms will sometime in life need a helping hand to get them through and that will get more organisms surviving.

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https://www.nature.com/scitable/knowledge/library/how-does-social-behavior-evolve-13260245
https://www.britannica.com/topic/animal-social-behaviour#ref48602