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Behaviors that lower the fitness of the individual but increase the fitness of another individual are termed altruistic. Examples of such behaviors are seen widely across the animal kingdom. Social insects such as worker bees have no ability to reproduce, yet they maintain the queen so she can populate the hive with her offspring. Meerkats keep a member of the group standing guard to warn the rest of the colony about

intruders, even though the guarding meerkat is putting itself at risk. Wolves and wild dogs bring meat to p

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