PSYO 2160 Lecture Notes - Lecture 20: Bush Dog, Canidae, Dhole
20 Jan 2016
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Types iii and iv coordinated style of hunting. Type one: solitary hunters, transient family, temporary pairs. Summary for canids: emergent social and reproductive characteristics. Alloparental care: from occasional helpers to true cooperative breeding. Family systems: immediate or nuclear family: foxes, coyotes, extended family: wolves, african wild dogs, congregation of families (clan system): dholes. Most vulpines fox like canids are monomorphic, more aggressive. Most canines such as coyotes and jackals, oligomorphic, equally than playful social and aggressive aggression very social selection to work. Wolf african dog, bush dog, dholes, are poly morphic, little. Need individuality to have a social system and for natural. More competitive in the social species of foxes. The grade i animals leave early because there isn"t much of a social thing going on. Increased aggression between the mother and younger kids leads to this. Lagomorpha such as hares, rabbits, pikas: a few species.
