Sentence examples for aggressive context from inspiring English sources

In October 1972, a 3.4 m long female with the broken bill from a swordfish (Xiphius gladias) lodged in her abdomen was caught in the northeastern Indian Ocean; it is unknown whether the shark was preying on swordfish as the shortfin mako does, or encountered the swordfish in some other aggressive context.

Our data show that female urine, while instrumental in initiating male courtship, is released in an aggressive context.

Urine visualisation experiments demonstrate that notwithstanding the aggressive context of female signal release, male courtship behaviour (seizing, turning) was always preceded by female urine delivery.

We show that skylarks increase vocal performance in an aggressive context suggesting that this trait might serve as a signal for competitive potential.

We here applied such a measure, which we call 'vocal gap deviation', to assess modulation of vocal performance in an aggressive context in skylarks, a songbird with an extremely complex and versatile song.

In a previous study, we found that gaps following those syllables that skylarks produced uniquely in an aggressive context were shorter than for syllables produced uniquely in baseline condition [ 8].

Although several rescue and aggressive behavior patterns involved the use of the mandibles, biting and attempts to dismember a body part were easily distinguished from limb pulling: In aggressive contexts, the gaster (abdomen) was always flexed, namely curved under the body, in preparation for formic acid spraying, whereas the gaster never was flexed during any form of rescue behavior.

The signal value should increase in aggressive contexts (context criterion).

Signal value should increase in aggressive contexts (context criterion).

The use of such signals in aggressive contexts that are close to performance limits of sound production have recently been described in swamp sparrows (Melospiza georgiana), although they face another kind of performance limit: They increase both trill rate and frequency bandwidth in aggressive contexts, two acoustic parameters that are difficult to increase simultaneously (DuBois et al. 2009).

In the social challenge context, aggressive behaviors decreased in response to blocking the androgen receptor pathway.