What is an example of territorial behavior?
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Is territorial behavior innate or learned?
Florida Beahan
2025-07-22 04:32:45
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Territorial behaviour, in zoology, the methods by which an animal, or group of animals, protects its territory from incursions by others of its species. Following, this definition, yes territorial behaviour exists in humans. Whether or not the behaviours you describe qualify as territorial behaviour requires one to make a psychological study to determine whether the individuals had a notion of territory that they wish to defend. I'd argue that territoriality can be observed on many scales with humans. It is also peculiar that humans seem to extend territoriality into abstract spaces, such as thoughts and ideologies. I once read the 2010 book Supernormal Stimuli: How Primal Urges Overran Their Evolutionary Purpose by Deirdre Barrett which argues, details and very elegantly describes our instinctual, territorial tendencies in modern humans. I do not doubt that humans today follow instincts we evolved for our time spent in the African savannahs. The book explains other vestigial instincts too, which evolved and now exist in an artificial environment.
Khalil Turcotte
2025-07-12 07:37:48
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Innate behaviour includes reflexes and instinctive behaviour patterns, such as social, territorial behaviour, communication, and cyclic behaviour like hibernation and migration. Zookeepers know about innate behaviour and can distinguish between classical and critical anthropomorphism. Innate and learned behaviour are important elements that zookeepers should be aware of, including the animal’s imprinting phase, ability to learn through trial and error, conditioning, and insight. Behaviour is either innate or learned, and zookeepers working at Competent level can distinguish whether behaviour is innate or learned to the species. Zookeepers can interpret the behaviour and discuss how this relates to the animal’s needs and report to the supervisor. Evaluate the observed behaviour and devise an appropriate husbandry and/or training programme to extend behaviour and welfare.
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What are the four types of territorial?
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Jaime Howell
2025-07-09 04:22:35
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Our brains are wired to protect us from threats. For social animals like humans, threats often come from other members of our own species when there is conflict over food, mates, or territory. Animals with a strong sense of territory will attack anyone who enters their territory, but will flee if caught in the territory of another individual. This finding has important implications for the field, because previous work had argued that the VMH is hardwired to respond to threats. Our view holds that the VMH is dedicated to controlling both attack and flight, and that this choice is driven by its encoding of social space. When an animal is in its own territory it favours attack, but when it is in the territory of another animal it favours flight. Rather than being viewed as an innate behavioural response region, the hypothalamus should be seen as a region that integrates present and past sensory and contextual information, processing the level of threat and adapting survival behaviours to a changing environment. The researchers showed that exposure to a more aggressive mouse dramatically increased the ability of the VMH to promote flight. Social experience can change the VMH.
Enola Marquardt
2025-06-25 08:08:01
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Instincts are innate behaviors that are hardwired into an animal’s biology and do not require learning or experience. Mating behaviors: Many animals have instinctual mating behaviors, such as courtship rituals and territorial behaviors, that help them attract a mate and reproduce. Instinct behaviors: born knowing how to do, inherited. Many common animal behaviors are learned through experience and exposure to their environment. Learned behaviors: taught or learned by experience, not inherited or born with. Foraging for food: Many animals learn to find and gather food through trial and error, as well as through observing and copying the behavior of other animals. Social behaviors: Many animals learn social behaviors such as how to communicate, cooperate, and form social bonds through interactions with other animals.
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