L3 Flashcards
What is Social behaviour?
How 2 or more members of a species interact with each other.
What is Solitary Social behaviour?
Displaying key behaviours alone. They come together for breeding.
What is Monogamy social behaviour?
Mate for life.
Whats eusocial social behaviour?
Majority of individuals cooperating to aid a few or 1 reproductive animal. ie BEE’S.
Whats social groups behaviour?
Living cooperatively.
Small to large social groups.
Solitary Examples: Name at least 3
Sloths
House spider 🕷️
African wild cat
Tiger
Great white shark
Monogamy Examples: Name at least 3
Birds
Swans
Lobsters
Seahorses
Collared Doves
Emperor Penguin 🐧
Eusocial Examples:
Bees 🐝
Termites
Shrimp
Ext
Social groups Examples:
Guinea pig
rabbits
African lion 🦁
A dog
What are the benefits and costs of being solitary?
BENEFITS:
Only need food for them. Don’t have to share of fight for resources. Easy to hide.
COSTS:
Harder to hunt. Hard to look for mate. If your ill you can’t hunt. You have to do everything yourself!
What are the benefits and costs of monogamy?
BENEFITS: Constant food to baby. No competition to mate. Less energy output, sharing work.
COSTS: If partner dies they won’t do so well. Have to share foods. Use more energy to hunt. Reduce rate of offspring and poor quality.
What are the Benefits and costs of being Eusocial?
BENEFITS: They can protect the queen. Safety in numbers. Highly efficient. Little fighting.
COSTS: A lot of mouths to feed. Few animals to reproduce. Loss of queen=loss of colony. Disease and predators can wipe out a colony.
What are the benefits and costs of being in Social groups?
BENEFITS: Protection. Sharing tasks. Bring down bigger pray. Safety in numbers. KNOWLEDGE is shared.
COSTS: Easier to see hard to hide. Fight for resources. Disease spread. A lot of food to feed them all.
What is a hierarchy?
1 person in charge of a group and people know where they stand.
Ie. A system of rank, organisation within social group :)
Whats the benefit is a hierarchy?
Minimum fighting.
What are the 3 types of social groups?
(HMH)
Hierarchies
Matriarchies
Harems
What are the 3 types of social behaviour? include examples.
Affiliative Eg Playing
Agonistic Eg fighting
Cooperative Eg working together, Ants
What is Affiliative behaviour?
Formation of social and emotional bonds with others.
Ie Allogrooming, Alloparenting, play
What is Agonistic Behaviour?
Behaviour used during conflict, usually indicates if an animal will fight or retreat. It prevents fights from occurring. Animals can assess if animal will WIN or not.
