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Scent marking, also known as territorial marking or spraying when this involves urination, is a behaviour used by animals to identify their territory. [ 10 ] [ 11 ] [ 12 ] Most commonly, this is accomplished by depositing strong-smelling substances contained in the urine , faeces , or, from specialised scent glands located on various areas of ...
Territoriality is a term associated with nonverbal communication that refers to how people use space to communicate ownership or occupancy of areas and possessions. [1] The anthropological concept branches from the observations of animal ownership behaviors.
The ultimate function of the dear enemy effect is to increase the individual fitness of the animal expressing the behaviour. This increase in fitness is achieved by reducing the time, energy or risk of injury unnecessarily incurred by defending a territory or its resources (e.g. mate, food, space) against a familiar animal with its own territory; the territory-holder already knows about the ...
The Territorial Imperative: A Personal Inquiry Into the Animal Origins of Property and Nations is a 1966 nonfiction book by American writer Robert Ardrey. It characterizes an instinct among humans toward territoriality and the implications of this to property ownership and nation building. [ 1 ]
Typically, display behaviour is used for courtship between two animals and to signal to the female that a viable male is ready to mate. [2] In other instances, species may make territorial displays, in order to preserve a foraging or hunting territory for its family or group. A third form is exhibited by tournament species in which males will ...
Foraging behavior is often population-specific, and varies by environment and food source. [35] Brown rats living near a hatchery in West Virginia catch fingerling fish. [ 36 ] Some colonies along the banks of the Po River in Italy dive for mollusks , [ 37 ] [ 38 ] a practice demonstrating social learning among members of this species. [ 39 ]
Like most cats, the bobcat is territorial and largely solitary, although with some overlap in home ranges. It uses several methods to mark its territorial boundaries, including claw marks and deposits of urine or feces. The bobcat breeds from winter into spring and has a gestation period of about two months.
Territorial jurisdiction consists of deciding patterns of land-use including the behavior of the people living within territorial lands. [22] Territorial states became fixed to local and expanding global markets for the economic capital that they produced.