MARB 403 Table 19.1
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Cooperative Behaviors in Vertebrates
Behavior | Terrestrial Examples | Cetacean Examples |
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1. Shared guarding and tending of young | Communal birds, ungulates, bats, elephants, primates, and carnivores | Tursiops, Physeter, Orcinus, etc. |
2. Shared Suckling | Elephants, lions, bats, hyaenas, walruses? | Physeter?, Globicephala |
3. Resource Advertisement | Chimps; others may lead without display (bats, carnivores, primates) | Aerial displays? in odontocetes |
4. Cohesive food searching | Many birds, carnivores, ungulates, bats | Many cetacean examples, including special school configurations and signals for synchronization |
5. Coordinated prey capture | Carnivores, chimps, mixed bird flocks? | Many odontocete examples |
6. Provisioning and regurgitation among adults | Carnivorous and vampire bats, canids | None known |
7. Alarm signals | Most social birds and mammals | Tail slaps and probably some vocalizations |
8. Defense of other adults | Ungulates, primates, elephants, bats | Standing by, but according to age or sex of recipient in many species |
9. Postural support of sick or injured adults | Elephants | Some delphinids |
10. Parasite removal | Bats, rodents, primates, some carnivores | None known |
11. Shared thermoregulation | Many mammal and bird species | None known |
12. Shared mate procurement | Turkeys?, lions, baboons | None known |
12. Shared defense of territory | Jays, tits, carnivores, primates, etc. | None known |
J. Bradbury 1986