social behavior in animals

Provides information about dolphins, discussing their social behaviors, looking at different groups and subgroups, and discussing their mating and childbirth practices, hunting, echolocation, and play.

Argues that animals do experience human-like emotions and moral intelligence, such as fear, regret, grief, empathy, trust, and reciprocity, and discusses how understanding those emotions can contribute to people's understanding of animals, their actions, and their place in the world.

Looks at different types of animal groups, discusses some of the reasons why animals live together, and examines the various roles individual animals play within the group.

Discusses animals that live in groups in jungles, including leopards, parrots, lemurs, apes, crocodiles, monkey, tigers.

Discusses animals that live in groups in Africa, including zebras, cheetahs, elephants, giraffes, and more.

Photographs and text describe why lions live in a pride, discussing the different ranks of the lions, hunting, and bringing in new recruits.

Examines the principal groupings in which animals live, the reasons for these divisions, and the behavior of animals in them.

Describes how wolves behave as social creatures living in groups called packs and how adult wolves raise their pups.

Presents true stories of the social behaviors of animals, looking at food sharing among vampire bats, the traffic patterns followed by ants, herring bubbles, and communication between hornbill birds and their monkey neighbors.

Photographs and simple text present a variety of animals in amusing poses in their natural habitat.