Costs and benefits of clustered living
Keywords:
social life, competition, predation, natural selection, living aloneAbstract
Group life occurs when more than two animals, usually of the same species, stay together to move and synchronize their activities. Although sexual activity is the purpose of clustering, the fact of forming societies generates communication and cooperative tendencies. This practice is key in the life of many animals and plays an essential role in the development of certain behaviors such as: the establishment of hierarchies, territory defense, predation, mate selection, foraging, aggression and competition. Group life should be directed to the growth of the members of the society sustained by the dynamics of costs and benefits. In group life the benefits of association must outweigh the costs, meaning that it must be advantageous for an organism to cluster in terms of fitness.
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