Mobbing

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Mobbing in animals is an anti-predator adaptation in which individuals of prey species cooperatively attack or harass a predator, usually to protect their offspring. A simple definition of mobbing is an assemblage of individuals around a potentially dangerous predator.

Excerpt from the Wikipedia article “Mobbing (animal behavior)”, under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license. Read the article on Wikipedia

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