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Mobbing is the harassing of a predator by many prey animals. Mobbing is usually done to protect the young in social colonies. For example, red colobus monkeys exhibit mobbing when threatened by chimpanzees, a common predator. The male red colobus monkeys group together and place themselves between predators and the group's females and juveniles.
Insects have a wide variety of predators, including birds, reptiles, amphibians, mammals, carnivorous plants, and other arthropods.The great majority (80–99.99%) of individuals born do not survive to reproductive age, with perhaps 50% of this mortality rate attributed to predation. [1]
Mobbing in animals is an anti-predator adaptation in which individuals of prey species cooperatively attack or harass a predator, usually to protect their offspring. A simple definition of mobbing is an assemblage of individuals around a potentially dangerous predator. [1]
Surviving in the wild is no easy feat, but thanks to evolution, many animals evade their predators with a clever deception of the eyes. Since the beginning of time animals have either adapted or ...
These amphibians usually sequester toxins from animals and plants on which they feed, commonly from poisonous insects or poisonous plants. Except certain salamandrid salamanders that can extrude sharp venom-tipped ribs, [ 1 ] [ 2 ] and two species of frogs with venom-tipped bone spurs on their skulls, amphibians are not known to actively inject ...
A truly inventive species, the Asian Honeybee keeps coming up with imaginative tactics to protect their hive and themselves. (For other bee variants, learn about the Africanized “killer” Bee.
Adelie penguins frequently wait to jump into the water until they have formed an aggregate to protect themselves from seal predation. [14] Redshanks in widely spaced groupings are 35% more likely to be targeted by sparrowhawk predators. [15] Mammals that inhabit open plains typically form aggregations likely to be associated with reduced ...
“Cat’s doing double duty protecting y’all from predators on your walk,” observed a third. And, to another, the cat’s just going, “What are you, a slob?” Cats and Cleanliness