Benefits of Social Behavior by Rachel Wilken [STUDENT]

What is Social Behavior?

rachel_177721 — 2018-04-18 15:53:54 UTC

By definition, social behavior is behavior between two or more organisms, typically of the same species.

Benefits of Social Behavior

rachel_177721 — 2018-04-18 15:59:38 UTC

Improved hunting success and improved protection from predators are the two benefits of social behavior. For example, dolphins usually hunt in groups. Since they travel in large groups, they have the ability to trap many fish at one time making hunting easier.

Adaptation of Social Behavior

rachel_177721 — 2018-04-18 16:13:15 UTC

Natural selection is defined as the process where animals adapt to their environment to increase their chance of survival. The longer the animal lives, the longer they have to reproduce and pass traits on to the next generation. Social behavior is one adaptation that allows the animals to live longer and produce more offspring. This allows the population of animals to evolve as those traits developed through social behavior become more prevalent in the gene pool.

Characteristics of Social Behaviors

rachel_177721 — 2018-04-18 16:22:21 UTC

Murmurations- action of murmuring

Pronking- alarms herd of predators but makes individual visible to predators

Communication- sharing and/or exchanging information that is critical to the groups survival

Migration- seasonal movement from one region to another

Swarming- to move somewhere in large numbers

Reciprocity- idea that one action will result in a future beneficial response

Altruism- behavior in which an animal reduces its own fitness to help others of its social group

Personal Statement

rachel_177721 — 2018-04-18 16:29:09 UTC

Personally, I think that the Benefits of Social Behavior as a whole for living things have a positive impact on individual populations. It allows animals to pass on successful traits that will help future generation survive and help other members of their population to survive.

Swarming

rachel_177721 — 2018-04-18 16:32:55 UTC

Pronking

rachel_177721 — 2018-04-18 16:34:29 UTC

Migration

rachel_177721 — 2018-04-18 16:35:57 UTC

Sources

rachel_177721 — 2018-04-20 18:08:02 UTC

Social Behavior. (n.d.). Retrieved from <https://study.com/academy/lesson/social-behavior-the-cost-benefit-of-altruism-and-kin-selection.html>.

Migration Adaptation

rachel_177721 — 2018-04-20 18:28:14 UTC

Animals that migrate have adapted this trait for when the temperatures get to extreme for the species to survive. For example, during the winter, most bird species fly North to warmer temperature. When they adapted this trait, it allowed them to live longer which results in the trait being passed down through generation becoming a learned behavior.

Murmurations

rachel_177721 — 2018-04-20 18:41:27 UTC