Noun
the behavior of a male animal that defines and defends its territory
Source: WordNetIf you look at human society, it is very easy, of course, to compare our warfare and territoriality with the chimpanzee. But that's only one side of what we do. We also trade, we intermarry, we allow each other to travel through our territory. There's an enormous amount of cooperation. Frans de Waal
Anybody who has ever owned a dog who barked when strangers came near its owner's property has experienced the essential continuity between animal territoriality and human property. Our domesticated cousins of the wolf are instinctively smarter about this than a good many human political theorists. Eric S. Raymond
We need no longer be trapped in the genetically inherited behavior patterns of lizards and baboons: territoriality and aggression and dominance hierarchies. We are each of us largely responsible for what gets put in to our brains. For what as adults we wind up caring for and knowing about. Carl Sagan
Each organism, no matter how simple or complex, has around it a sacred bubble of space, a bit of mobile territoriality which only a few other organisms are allowed to penetrate and then only for short periods of time. Edward T. Hall
A 1987 study of the social organisation in males showed that territoriality depends on the size and age of the males and the membership of the coalition. Source: Internet
Crowding can constrain normal swimming behaviour, as well as increase aggressive and competitive behaviours such as cannibalism, citation feed competition, citation territoriality and dominance/subordination hierarchies. Source: Internet