Why do canines live in groups and felines live alone?

Because according to the habits of life, canines.

Approximately most dogs hunt in groups, while most cats hunt alone. This is mainly because in evolution, dogs have chosen to chase and cats have chosen to be sneaky. Canines choose to display their sharp claws as soon as they appear, probably because they love to chase their prey from the start.

The more you run and the longer you run, the more you need to grip, and claws are obviously the best gripping tool. Usually as soon as cats appear, they choose to hunt alone and secretly, which is more dependent on their own combat power, while secret hunting relies on as little noise as possible, so their paws can be retracted. Dogs will choose to chase and hunt, and they will use a lot of force during the chase, which can lead to a phenomenon:

The prey catches up, and the force is almost exhausted. Therefore, in order to increase the success rate of hunting, they choose to live in groups. But living in groups and not being able to cope with food shortages, they have to control their size.

Even in the case of food scarcity, felines.

Living alone also gives them access to a relatively rich ontogenetic diet. Cats tend to get bigger, and dogs tend to get smaller.

Dogs have higher IQs than cats, and we see that the vast majority of domesticated dogs, including guide dogs, are the ones that help humans work.

And domesticated cats have very little work, and it is difficult for us to see that from this point of view, dogs have relatively high IQs.

In terms of the size of existing cats and canines, the largest canines are about the same size as medium-sized cats, and most canines hunt in groups, while cats mostly hunt individually. The reason for this status quo is mainly because in the process of evolution, the canine family chose to chase, and the feline family chose to sneak attack, it is this difference in choice that makes the canine paw lose its power, in order to have the ability to hunt animals after the chase, they choose to live in groups, which causes the difference in food supply (stability and the amount of food obtained by the individual), and finally causes the largest canine family to be less large than the largest cat. In this way, the late cat successfully completed the "corner overtaking" and became the dominant breed among the competitors.

This is mainly due to their habits, as felines are able to hunt independently.

<> "In the large family of the feline family, almost all of them live alone, and only the lion is a very social animal.

So why did lions evolve into social animals?

This is inseparable from the environment in which they live. In a similar environment, animals will have convergent evolution. That is to say, it is possible for different species of animals to evolve more and more like each other under the pressure of survival (keyword: possible. This is possible to explain later).

For example, the North American cheetah and the African cheetah are a very typical example. The North American savannah environment is similar to that of the African savannah, with flat land suitable for prey to flee quickly.

In order to be able to eat their prey, these two animals evolved faster and faster, and their main prey, the pronghorn and gazelle, became faster and faster. To this day, although the North American cheetah is long since extinct, the pronghorn is still the fastest mammal in North America.

There are three main reasons why lions become social animals:

1. Because lions live in the savanna area, where the field of vision is wide, which is not conducive to the concealment of large carnivores, and will be discovered by prey very early, so in order to improve the success rate of hunting, the carnivores here, including lions, appear as group hunters.

2. In the process of evolution, lions have to feed on large animals because of their large family population, which further consolidates their path to social development.

3. As large carnivores, they must have a large enough territory to keep their food stable. And on the African continent, hyenas are also very territorial and social animals. Territorial battles often break out between the two sides, and in order to keep their territory, the lions must also huddle together to keep warm.

While lions are becoming more and more canine-like, other African cats are still living alone. Therefore, the same living environment will only make it possible for animals to evolve more and more alike.

For example, cheetahs, which are also cats, rarely cooperate in hunting. This is because cheetahs are smaller in size and can approach their prey with the help of grass and bushes. In addition, compared to the lion, a powerful beast, the cheetah has a flexible body, and it is easier to obtain prey by pursuing hunting methods.

As a result, they increase their speed to the extreme, and they do not need to change their habits of living alone.

Felidae: It is divided into 3 subfamilies, cheetahs, cats, and leopards. There are 15 genera and 38 species.

Medium-to-large body in size, uniform body, medium-length limbs, toe-walking. The head is large and round, the snout is short, and the senses of sight, hearing, and smell are well developed. The canines and lobes are extremely well developed; The upper lobe tooth has three cusps, and the lower lobed tooth has two cusps; The molars are more degenerate, and the diameter of the crown is less than the height of the lateral incisors.

The fur is soft and often has a distinct pattern. 5 toes on the forefoot, 4 toes on the hind foot; The claws are sharp and retractable (cheetah claws cannot be fully retracted). The tail is generally more developed.

The cheetah subfamily has non-retractable claws and resembles a canid, distinguishing it from other cats. Only 1 genus and 1 species; The cat subfamily has retractable claws, is generally small, does not roar, and has a total of 10 genera; The claws of the subfamily Leopardidae are retractable, generally large, and capable of roaring. There are 4 genera.

Most of the cats are good at climbing and jumping. Most of them like to live alone. Carnivorous, often ambushing other warm-blooded animals.

Found in Eurasia, Africa, and the cold zone of the Americas, domestic cats domesticated by wild cats (Felis silvestris) have been artificially brought to the world, and many of them have become local invasive species.

1) Social living is a common form of survival in nature, and from the perspective of behavioral economics, for almost all hunted rubber fiber species, their survival strategy has an obvious "collective security" factor. The sense of security in a swarmed house is known as the dilution effect, and living in a group can reduce the likelihood of being hunted.

2) For cats, although living in a group can be convenient for finding food, it is not enough to make up for the shortcomings of other cats grabbing food with themselves. Cat's philosophy of life: such as laughing at one person to eat enough and the whole family is not hungry. Cats are very independent.

In summary, cats are not social animals.