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Also known as quasisocial, gregariousness, gregarian behavior

thumb|Herd of American bison at Genesee Park

Wikidata facts

Instance of
animal behavior
Subclass of
social behavior
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opposite of
solitary animal
partially coincident with
social
different from
herd behavior
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Encyclopedic overview

8 sections
Contents
  • Presociality
  • Subsociality
  • Solitary but social
  • Parasociality
  • Eusociality
  • Human eusociality
  • See also
  • References

thumb|Herd of American bison at Genesee Park

Sociality is the degree to which individuals in an animal population tend to associate in social groups (for which, the desire or inclination is known as gregariousness) and form cooperative societies.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “sociality” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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