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NATURE ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION
Volume 1, Issue 9, Pages 1230-1239Publisher
NATURE PUBLISHING GROUP
DOI: 10.1038/s41559-017-0245-0
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- DAAD (Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst)
- Max Planck Society
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Social predation-the act of hunting and feeding with others-is one of the most successful life-history traits in the animal kingdom. Although many predators hunt and feed together, a diversity of mechanisms exist by which individuals forage socially. However, a comprehensive framework capturing this diversity is lacking, preventing us from better understanding cooperative forms of predation, and how such behaviours have evolved and been maintained over time. We outline a framework of social predation that describes five key behavioural dimensions: sociality, communication, specialization, resource sharing, and dependence. By reviewing examples of social predation, we demonstrate the strength of a multidimensional approach, highlighting key commonalities and differences among species, and informative cross-dimensional correlations. These patterns highlight different potential evolutionary pathways and end-points across a multidimensional social predation spectrum.
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