Definitions for social animal
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1. social animal

   Sociality is the degree to which individuals in an animal population tend to associate in social groups (gregariousness) and form cooperative societies. Sociality is a survival response to evolutionary pressures. For example, when a mother wasp stays near her larvae in the nest, parasites are less likely to eat the larvae. Biologists suspect that pressures from parasites and other predators selected this behavior in wasps of the family Vespidae. This wasp behaviour evidences the most fundamental characteristic of animal sociality: parental investment. Parental investment is any expenditure of resources (time, energy, social capital) to benefit one's offspring. Parental investment detracts from a parent's capacity to invest in future reproduction and aid to kin (including other offspring). An animal that cares for its young but shows no other sociality traits is said to be subsocial. An animal that exhibits a high degree of sociality is called a social animal. The highest degree of sociality recognized by sociobiologists is eusociality. A eusocial taxon is one that exhibits overlapping adult generations, reproductive division of labor, cooperative care of young, and—in the most refined cases—a biological caste system.

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1. social animal

   A social animal is an organism, typically belonging to a species of birds, mammals, or insects, that exhibits complex social behavior, interacts and communicates with others of its species, and often lives in organized groups or communities. These animals require social contact for various purposes such as mating, raising offspring, hunting, protecting themselves against predators, or simply for companionship. The social interactions among members of a social animal species can involve various forms of communication, cooperation, division of labor, and the establishment of social hierarchies.

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1. Social animal

   Social animals are those animals which interact highly with other animals, usually of their own species, to the point of having a recognizable and distinct society. Many animals are social to the extent that mothers and offspring bond, and males and females interact to mate, but the term "social animal" is usually only applied when there is a level of social organization that goes beyond this, with permanent groups of adults living together, and relationships between individuals that endure from one encounter to another. The most commonly known example of a social animal is a domestic dog. In the case of social animals, not having those social interactions can be detrimental to the animal's development; they are crucial. These interactions and socializing help to develop emotional stability and flexibility for the span of the animal's life. The antonym to a social animal is a solitary animal. Sociality refers to the extent of organization of their social behavior. The levels of sociality include eusocial, presocial, subsocial, and parasocial.

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1. Alex

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   David

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   Mark

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   Daniel

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   Libby

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   Mia

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   Karen

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   Hayley

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   Natasha

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   Neerja

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   Oliver

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of social animal in Chaldean Numerology is: 6

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of social animal in Pythagorean Numerology is: 1

Examples of social animal in a Sentence

1. Abraham Myerson:

   Society expects man to be a passive social animal who believes like the People of the Field in "Jurgen" that "to do what you always have done" and "what is expected of you" are the twin rules of life. This, is course, is not true. The wanton crucifixion of impulses, the unnecessary blocking and frustration of the drives and urges, are an evil that reflects itself in sophistication, ennui and boredom, dissatisfaction, melancholy, fatigue, anxiety and neurosis.

2. B. J. Gupta:

   Man is a social animal. Without society he is nothing but animal. Yet many consider themselves 'self made'.

3. Marcus Aurelius Antoninus:

   The happiness and unhappiness of the rational, social animal depends not on what he feels but on what he does just as his virtue and vice consist not in feeling but in doing.

References

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3. ^ Wikidata
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