Social facilitation in animals
Social facilitation in animals is when the performance of a behaviour by an animal increases the probability of other animals also engaging in that behaviour or increasing the intensity of the behaviour.[1][2] More technically, it is said to occur when the performance of an instinctive pattern of behaviour by an individual acts as a releaser for the same behaviour in others, and so initiates the same line of action in the whole group.[3] It has been phrased as "The energizing of dominant behaviors by the presence of others."[4]
Social facilitation occurs in a wide variety of species under a range of circumstances. These include feeding,
Social facilitation is sometimes used to develop successful social scavenging strategies.
Moller used a play-back technique to investigate the effects of singing by the
See also
References
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