Pack Animals

From the Encyclopedia Britanica:  

animal social behaviour

• TITLE: social behaviour, animal
  SECTION: Social interactions involving the use of space
  ...school (fish), and tribe (humans) and more generalized terms such as colony, den, family, group, or pack. ..such as mating, nesting, feeding, sleeping, huddling, hibernating, and migrating. The plains of sub-Saharan Africa provide many examples, including lions sleeping in groups under thorn acacia trees, packs of hyenas (family Hyaenidae) cooperating to bring down a zebra (Equus quagga, E. grevyi, or E. zebra), migrating herds of wildebeest (Connochaetes), and lekking male*...
  
  
  
  cooperative foraging (biology)
  
  
  in biology, the process by which individuals in groups benefit by working together to gain access to food and other resources. Such cooperation ranges from the use of “ pack tactics” that involve elaborate signals to corral individual animals from large herds of prey to activities designed to overwhelm with large numbers the physical and chemical defenses of plants.
  
  
  

  I just think I'm a pack animal.  I'm not really that fond of living alone, nesting, feeding, sleeping, hibernating, and foraging all by myself.  Looking at the stars at night is just not the same as when discussing with another human being. It just isn't in my personality to walk through each day and night alone.

  
  

  I have a mate; I'm the other half of someone else.  

  
  
  
  Harry:  "I love that you get cold when it's 71 degrees out. I love that it takes you an hour and a half to order a sandwich. I love that you get a little crinkle above your nose when you're looking at me like I'm nuts. I love that after I spend the day with you, I can still smell your perfume on my clothes. And I love that you are the last person I want to talk to before I go to sleep at night." 
  
  

  
  

  

  
  

  
  

  
  

  “He's more myself than I am. Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same.” ― Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights

  
  
  *A lekking species is defined by the following characteristics: male displays, strong female mate choice, and the conferring of male indirect benefits...