Social behaviour and hierarchies

Question 1

Social behaviour

Answer 1

Interactions that occur between two or more individual animals

Question 2

Asocial

Answer 2

animals that rarely interact with other animals - polar Bears

Question 3

Hierarchies

Answer 3

A system which members of a social animal group are ranked according to relative status or authority - helps with conflict reduction

Question 4

Linear Hierarchy structures

Answer 4

one individual dominates all the other individuals in a group, a second dominates all but the first, and so on down to the last individual who is dominated by all the others.
Example: bees -> Queen -> workers -> drones

Question 5

Complex Hierarchy structures