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Hace 5 días · The Call of the Wild by Jack London was published in 1903. The plot follows the life of Buck, a pet dog, as he is stolen and sold to be a sled dog in the midst of the Klondike gold rush. Buck is forced to adapt by giving in to his primitive instincts until he succumbs completely and becomes the leader of a wolf pack.
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Hace 3 días · Density dependence is a fundamental ecological process. In particular, animal habitat selection and social behavior often affect fitness in a density-dependent manner. The Ideal Free Distribution ...
Hace 3 días · Mr. Dugatkin’s “The Well-Connected Animal” combines accessible prose with solid science as he details the social networks of nonhuman animals. “These networks,” he writes, “stand as a ...
Hace 3 días · Monkeys are highly social animals, and almost all live in troops consisting of several females with young and either a single male (as in hamadryas baboons, mandrills, most guenons, and most langurs) or several males (as in savannah baboons and macaques).
There are many animals that live in tight-knit altruistic family groups all their life (female elephants for example). Their connections ‚must „feel“ to them similar to human familial love. There are eusocial animals that function (arguably) more like organs of a single individual than a group of single animals.
Hace 3 días · Elephant. Elephants are the largest living land animals. Three living species are currently recognised: the African bush elephant ( Loxodonta africana ), the African forest elephant ( L. cyclotis ), and the Asian elephant ( Elephas maximus ). They are the only surviving members of the family Elephantidae and the order Proboscidea; extinct ...
Hace 4 días · cross between Siamese and Burmese. An overview of the origins and history of cats, how they are identified, their body types and features, and their senses, behavior, and heredity.
