Gregarious behaviour

Gregäres behavior (Eng. several, in Community of Latin gregarius - " belonging to the flock " ) is primarily used as a technical term in biology. It describes the coming together of organisms ( aggregation) who live alone otherwise, in a place due to factors such as rising food availability and water. So bsp find. Gravedigger at a dead animals or dung beetles to feces. Derived from the behavior describes the Gregarismus the degree of aggregation of a type of organism in specific areas of their habitat.

Occasionally, the term is used basically as in the group alive. The counterpart to gregär is solitary.

A special form of gregären behavior is the Gregärparasitismus in which several parasites of the same species living in a host. Can usually develop only one copy per host, then one speaks of Solitärparasitismus.

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