Boxing - Boxing Posture
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Overview and Meaning
Boxing posture is a form of aggressive behavior that typically occurs in response to a territorial threat.
Description
Combined with a tendency to approach, an upright posture where the animal remains in its place. Intention-boxing movements of the forepaws and intention biting are sometimes seen.
Classification
Variant of Boxing, in Aggressive Behaviors, part of Agonistic Interactions
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.
Boxing Posture is a variant of Boxing.
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
