Sharing of tasks

• Animals that reach the highest level of social organisation in a community are called eusocial animals and live together in highly organised colonies.
• The most well known examples are social insects, such as bees, ants, termites, and wasps.
• The only mammalian examples are the naked mole rat (Heterocephalus glaber) and the Damaraland mole rat
• There are different groups or castes that perform specialised functions in the colonies
• These functions include finding food, protecting the nest and caring for the young
• A single dominant fertile female, the queen, is characteristic of those colonies