Wild Wonders

Pack Hunting: The Coordinated Strategy for Survival


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Examines pack hunting as a sophisticated cooperative strategy across the animal kingdom. It highlights canids like African wild dogs, wolves, and dingoes, noting that African wild dogs achieve an 85% hunting success rate. Examples of cooperative hunting extend to orcas, sharks, and sometimes solitary species like crocodiles, illustrating how environmental factors and prey type influence group hunting. The transcript also explores the idea that human intelligence may have evolved to support cooperative hunting, later facilitating the domestication of wolves.

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