Knowra Cooperative hunting Cooperative hunting Cooperative hunting is the coordinated pursuit or capture of prey by multiple individuals. Participants may divide roles, communicate, or adjust their actions to one another.
Hunting strategy : A plan or pattern of behavior used by predators to find, pursue, and capture prey. Cooperative hunts are group-level strategies shaped by prey, habitat, and participants.
Orca : A large, toothed whale found in oceans worldwide, also known as the killer whale. Orcas use coordinated tactics, including wave-washing seals from ice floes.
Drive hunting : A method that directs animals toward hunters, traps, or barriers through organized pursuit. It makes coordinated human roles explicit: some people drive prey while others wait.
Solitary hunting : Hunting in which one individual searches for, pursues, and captures prey without coordinated help. It contrasts group coordination with a predator acting alone.
Group selection : An evolutionary process in which differences among groups affect how traits spread. It offers one proposed explanation for cooperation that benefits a hunting group.
Pack hunting : A form of cooperative hunting in which a group pursues or captures prey together. It is a familiar form of coordinated hunting among social predators.
African wild dog : A social canid native to sub-Saharan Africa that hunts mainly in packs. Its hunts feature coordinated pursuit and unusually high success against some prey.
Bow and arrow : A projectile weapon consisting of a flexible bow and a drawn string that launches an arrow. Ranged weapons can let groups intercept prey from different positions.
Scavenging : Feeding on animals that are already dead rather than killing them for food. Gathering at a carcass can resemble group feeding but is not a cooperative hunt.
Inclusive fitness : An individual's genetic success through both its own reproduction and effects on relatives' reproduction. Kinship can make helping relatives during a hunt beneficial even when rewards are unequal.
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