Herds

... in the nature, nothing is simple and there are surely many other aspects that also affect the final outcome. Quite clearly, wildebeest living in herds of thousands of animals cannot have that much bigger social cortices in their brains that, say, lions do. I will see if I can find more detailed ...

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... spider monkeys, chimps, gorillas, howler monkeys, lions, elephants, etc. living in five hundred to thousand individual size groups or shall we say herds? All of them and a mass of other such small group animals live in groups in numbers per group that stays within a certain range. In most, there ...

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... area long enough, or faced with limited forage, they will eat nearly every green thing in sight - which is exactly what occured in the historic herds of thousands across the western us. They would leave a devastated wasteland in their wake, as the shepherds moved them along. The biggest problem ...

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... 1) Lions prey on Zebras even though they are (Zebras) striped. However, stripes might reduce the individual risk as long as the animals stay in herds. 2) Stripe-Patterns of Zebras vary from species to species (there are four with more subspecies). There is a significant correlation between stripe ...

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... and goats. *One theory is that transhumance just sort of developed by itself out of the seasonal wandering involved in following wild animal herds.

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