sociality

studies of animal behaviour

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  In animal social behavior: Categorizing the diversity of social behavior

  Wilson—developed a categorization of sociality following two routes, called the parasocial sequence and the subsocial sequence. This classification is based primarily on the involvement of insect parents with their young, whereas classifications of vertebrate sociality are frequently based on spacing behavior or mating system. Both routes culminate in “eusociality,”…

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  In animal social behavior: Categorizing the diversity of social behavior

  …of 10 essential qualities of sociality, including (1) group size, (2) distributions of different age and sex classes, (3) cohesiveness, (4) amount and pattern of connectedness, (5) “permeability,” or the degree to which societies interact with one another, (6) “compartmentalization,” or the extent to which subgroups operate as discrete units,…

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