Attack
Overview and Meaning
Attack is one of the aggressive behaviors which typify escalated aggression. Attack can either cause the aggressive interaction to end with submission, or to increase into fighting.
Description
The mouse rushes or leaps at a partner while biting and kicking.
Classification
Contexts
Agonistic interactions can occur in the context of territorial behavior and/or dominance behavior. Territorial behavior and dominance behavior differ in the context that they occur, the resources under competition, and the threat behavior that initiates the interaction.
Variants
None
Attack is part of
Aggressive Behaviors
These behaviors are characteristic of escalated aggression, and consist of:
Aggressive behaviors are part of
Agonistic Interactions
The full behavior chain consists of:
Agonistic interactions occur to assert territory or dominance. This can proceed as either mediated aggression or escalated aggression, differentiated by the absence or presence of aggressive behaviors.
Stanford Department of Comparative Medicine presents
A Comprehensive Ethogram of the Laboratory Mouse
