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Consider the following claim: group behavior can increase the chances for an individual and a species to survive and reproduce

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Many social behaviors of animals are adaptive, meaning that being social ultimately increases an animal's fitness — its lifetime reproductive success. One example of how social behavior is adaptive is aggregation against predators.
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