Allomimetic Behavior
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Allomimetic Behavior
Many animals live in social groups, and living in these groups may enable them to perform tasks more efficiently. For instance, some social animals may engage in allomimetic behavior, in which the performance of a behavior by one animal increases the chances that other, nearby animals will respond by imitating the animal and performing the same behavior. Allomimetic behavior can be helpful to these animals because there are certain tasks that cannot be accomplished by a single individual. When multiple animals are performing the same behavior, however, they will be able to coordinate their activities and accomplish these tasks more effectively.
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Explain how the exam of marmosets illustrates the concept of allomimetic behavior.
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Allomimetic behavior is when one animal's actions prompt others nearby to imitate and perform the same behavior, enabling coordinated group tasks that a single individual can't accomplish alone. The professor takes marmosets as an example to illustrate the concept of allomimetic behavior. Marmosets live in social groups, share duties like raising young, finding food, and grooming. A key task is marking their territory to defend it. Researchers observed that one marmoset begins by gnawing on a tree branch and then rubbing its body against the gnawed spot to leave a scent mark, signaling the tree as part of their territory. Immediately, other marmosets imitate this behavior, gnawing and scent-marking nearby trees. This collective effort efficiently marks many trees in their territory, something one marmoset couldn't do alone.
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