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Other Benefits and Costs of Grouping,ources, from grouping with others. This may be so, but there are many other advantages and disadvantages that also apply to social species. Some of the key ones are summarised in this chapter. We have arranged these into broad functional categories, summarised in Table 5.1.

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Collective Decision-Making,rrive at some mutually satisfactory outcome. Typically, contexts for collective decisions include the timing of some group activity, or the travelling direction of the group, and a broad consensus is required among group members if they are to retain group coherence.

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Mechanisms: Social Recognition and Social Organisation,things. The basic tenet that underlies these forms of social organisation is that animals adapt their responses to the different individuals that they encounter according to some recognised characteristic. For example, an individual may be socially attracted to some, but may ignore others; it may de

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