Identification
presocial adjective, noun
presociality - a phenomenon in which animals exhibit more than just sexual interactions with members of the same species, but fall short of qualifying as
eusocial. Presocial animals can display communal living, cooperative care of young, or some reproductive division of labor, but they do not display all three of those traits (Wikipedia--
Presociality)
(1). Further classifications of presocial behavior include:
1-parasocial - a condition where individuals (females) cooperate in care of young, or there is division of labor in reproduction, and/or overlap of generations. Parasocial behavior may be further classified as:
communal
quasisocial
semisocial
2-subsocial - behavior where a parent (typically a female, but sometimes both male and females) remains with, protects and/or feeds immature offspring, but usually leaves or dies before they mature.
Print References
Gordh and Headrick (2001)--entries for presocial, etc.
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Contributed by
Cotinis on 19 October, 2009 - 9:45pm
Last updated 21 October, 2009 - 9:07am