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All animals are social to some extent— Sexual Reproduction requires animals to come in contact together in order to Mate , and in animals showing any degree of parental care there is a minimal social unit of one or more parents and their offspring. The term "social animal" is usually only applied when there is a level of Social Organization that goes beyond this, with permanent groups of adults living together, and relationships between individuals that endure from one encounter to another. Animal social behavior and organization is studied in Comparative Psychology , Ethology , Sociobiology , Behavioral Ecology and Computer Science ( Artificial Intelligence ). Typical issues in social behaviour are:
A few species, notably insects of the Orders '' Hymenoptera '' ( Ant s, Bee s and Wasp s) and '' Isoptera '' ( Termite s) show an extreme form of sociality, involving highly organized societies, with individual organisms Specialized for distinct Role s. This form of social behavior is referred to as Eusociality . Some Vertebrate s, most notably the Naked Mole Rat , are also eusocial. Some animals whose social behavior is of particular interest:
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