What does this top-10 list show and what do the percentages mean?

[AviatorTom]

Here is a top-10 list of some category...

1. California deermouse (100%)
2. African wild dog (85%)
3. Damaraland mole rat (79.5%)
4. Moustached tamarin (77.6%)
5. Ethiopian wolf (76.5%)
6. Humans (66%)
7. White-haired gibbon (63.5%)
8. Meerkat (59.9%)
9. Grey wolf (46.2%)
10. Red fox (45.2%)

What does this top-10 list show and what do the percentages mean?

Make your best guess.

Correct answer will be given in a few days (Saturday).

In comparison, chimpanzees and dolphins are each 4%.

[egan3141]

Looking up deermouse and dolphin, my guesses would be something related to

• Pairing up (bonding/marriage)
• Father presence

That's all I can come up with. Everything else I can think of doesn't fit 100% for mice, and sometimes but almost never for dolphins (and being very common for humans)

[msc545]

This is a list of the world’s most cooperative or communal breeders—species in which individuals other than the genetic parents help to raise offspring. The percentages represent the proportion of social groups or observed breeding attempts in the species that involve alloparents (helpers)—not the percentage of DNA shared, not survival rates, not genetic similarity.

[AviatorTom]

@msc545 Nope, that's not it. You and the AI bot have it wrong this time.

[msc545]

Oh dear, well, I will tell the bot.

[msc545]

Okay, the bot now thinks that it's the percentage of sibling pairs in the species that share the same biological mother and father.

[AviatorTom]

@msc545 Too bad GaG only allows one opinion per question. 🙊🙉🙈

[msc545]

So I take it that I am correct, and the bot is correct about this, but you don't want to say so.

[purplepoppy]

Dam you beat me to this question. I won't answer because I saw the article today.

Re. Dolphins you might want to Google "Freddie the dolphin Amble"

[jennifer_bloom]

Maybe the speed at which the population is growing and expanding, since chimpanzees and dolphins could be declining in population growth.

[AI Opinion]

This top-10 list likely shows species ranked by their unique level of social cooperation or teamwork. The percentages might represent the level of cooperative behavior exhibited relative to some baseline or other species. Humans, with a score of 66%, exhibit significant cooperation compared to chimpanzees and dolphins at 4%, suggesting the list measures how species collaborate, possibly within social structures or when raising offspring.

[hafinjun]

Why that sounds like a study I recently read concerning monogamy and where we place in nature

[KostasKouvalis]

Chances of these species being rabid?

Where do you find these?

[Cidknee]

Percentage of where each sits on the food chain.

[Anonymous]

Maybe percentage of offspring...