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 …

…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...