Socialization (biology)

Socialization has the following meanings in biology :

flora

A plant society describes a certain, abstractable species composition ( biocenosis ) of plants . The doctrine of the socialization of plants is also known as plant sociology .

fauna

In animals , biology (sometimes called " animal sociology ") describes the process of integrating an individual or a group into an existing group, for example when relocating livestock or domestic animals or when relocating wild animals from captivity to the natural one Surroundings. In the course of this process the hierarchy between the animals is renegotiated.

Zoological gardens

Keeping several animal species in one enclosure is also called socialization.

literature

• Reinhold Tüxen : Plant sociology as a synthetic science. In: Miscellaneous Papers , Vol. 5, Wageningen 1970, pp. 141–159