Interactions among Populations

When organisms "fight" over the same resource (food, water, mate)

• competition

• cooperation

• territorial imperative

• social hierarchy

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When there is an order within a group of organisms/same species living together. This order helps this group to survive and be successful

• competition

• cooperation

• social hierarchy

• territorial imperative

when an organism protects or communicates with other organisms that the area it lives in is already taken. Animals do this to protect resources.

• competition

• cooperation

• social hierarchy

• territorial imperative

When organisms work together to achieve or get the same resource

• competition

• cooperation

• social hierarchy

• territorial imperative

a dog pees on a fire hydrant

• competition

• cooperation

• social hierarchy

• territorial imperative

A wild boar (pig) marks a tree with his tusks

• competition

• cooperation

• social hierarchy

• territorial imperative

Monkeys help to clean bugs off of each other's back

• competition

• cooperation

• social hierarchy

• territorial imperative

Prairie dogs take shifts guarding their burrow. Others watch over the young prairie dogs and there is 1 alpha male who is in charge of the burrow.

• competition

• cooperation

• social hierarchy

• territorial imperative

The cats hiss and scratch at each other while trying to catch the same mouse

• competition

• cooperation

• social hierarchy

• territorial imperative