Chapter 31, Problem 21A

Summary Introduction

To write: The behavior developed by the animal which makes it threatening for other animal of the same species.

Introduction: The study of interaction of living things with each other and their environment is known as ecology. Every animal interacts with each other. And it could be within the members of the same species or the members of the different species.

Explanation of Solution

Within a population, there is competition for food, space, mates and other resources. So, most animals adapt or innately possess the behavior which makes them dominant over the other animal of the same species. Such type of behavior is known as competitive behavior.

This behavior lets an animal be dominant or control an area or resources. The member, who successfully controls its competitive behavior, obtains more resources and reproduction than the other.

Competitive behavior includes: Agnostic behavior, territorial behavior and dominance hierarchies.

Conclusion

Competitive behavior results in a threatening or combative interaction between two individuals of the same species.