Agonistic behavior in food animals: review of research and techniques.

摘要: One type of social behavior--agonistic behavior--is commonly observed among food animals. Agonistic behaviors are those which cause, threaten to cause or seek reduce physical damage. behavior is comprised threats, aggression and submission. While any one these divisions agonistic may be alone, they usually found, in sequence, from the start end an interaction. Food animals show interspecific intraspecific behaviors. Interspecific has not been extensively studied but it agriculturally important because farm workers become injured killed by aggressive Types are: when brought together, intermale fighting, resource defense, inter-gender fighting aberrant aggression. Common pitfalls research on include too few replicates detect a biological difference, assumptions analysis met, only submission other components measured, incomplete description reported complete, quantitive ethogram did form basis for selecting behavioral measures.