Mammalian Aggression
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Mammalian Aggression
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#6Fun analysis.
I would've assumed maternal aggression would come with vocalizing + threats, but here it says not?
It says this:
>Maternal aggression in rodents, like predatory aggression and unlike social aggression, is _not _accompanied by a cortisol response, elevated arousal, or social signaling (threats).
But I've seen plenty of videos of animals being territorial where people say "oh they're guarding their cubs, stay away". But maybe they're talking about conspecific aggression? It feels like maybe an over-broad generalisation to me. I wish I knew more about animal behaviour that I could judge for sure...
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#7Mammalian aggression is described biologically within a framework of four categories:
1. Defensive
2. Social
3. Maternal
4. Predatory
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#8Fun analysis. I would've assumed maternal aggression would come with vocalizing + threats, but here it says not? It says this: >Maternal aggression in rodents, like predatory aggression and unlike social aggression, is _not _accompanied by a cortisol response, elevated arousal, or social signaling (threats). But I've seen plenty of videos of animals being territorial where people say "oh they're guarding their cubs,…
If you're simply encroaching on their territory and they happen to have young they might respond to it as a territorial threat. I suspect it's direct threats to the actual young that trigger maternal aggression, in which case it's gloves off, you're going down. So while it's still the territorial type you need to back off, because you really don't want it to turn into the other kind.
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#9Fun analysis. I would've assumed maternal aggression would come with vocalizing + threats, but here it says not? It says this: >Maternal aggression in rodents, like predatory aggression and unlike social aggression, is _not _accompanied by a cortisol response, elevated arousal, or social signaling (threats). But I've seen plenty of videos of animals being territorial where people say "oh they're guarding their cubs,…
If you're simply encroaching on their territory and they happen to have young they might respond to it as a territorial threat. I suspect it's direct threats to the actual young that trigger maternal aggression, in which case it's gloves off, you're going down. So while it's still the territorial type you need to back off, because you really don't want it to turn into the other kind.
The article claims that maternal aggression specifically occurs for pregnant mothers or while in the act of nursing the young (or at least while lactating). It seems that this is a very specific kind of aggression response, while the increased territoriality would likely be a case of defensive aggression.
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#10I have always felt that human behavior should be interpreted as a variant of mammal behavior. So social scientists would be informed by biologists.