Topic summary
Subsocial
Extracted from the Wikipedia article Sociality.
Subsociality
Subsociality is common in the animal kingdom. In subsocial taxa, parents care for their young for some length of time. Even if the period of care is very short, the animal is still described as subsocial. If adult animals associate with other adults, they are not called subsocial, but are ranked in some other classification according to their social behaviours. If occasionally associating or nesting with other adults is a taxon's most social behaviour, then members of those populations are said to be solitary but social. Wilson (1971), Choe & Crespi (1997) and Costa (2006) discuss subsociality.