Animal Behavior: Hunting as a group.

Introduction An animal needs to be able to spot and catch prey, defend their prey against other predators and protect itself, in order to ensure an animal's survival a kind of group is then formed. All social animals belong to a kind of unit examples of these are a pack (wolf), pride (lions), and convocation (eagle). These groups are created not only for offensive purposes but for defensive purposes as well; I will be discussing …showed first 75 words of 1074 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1074 total…many predators are dying off. Both the population of lions and wolves has been largely reduced, mainly by humans but lack of food still plays a major roll in this. Many tactics are employed in this method of hunting and communication between the animals also plays a vital role. It is quite amazing how complex the activity of group hunting is, and it will continue to be used by animals to effectively kill their prey...