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"defensive behavior" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when you are referring to a behavior that someone engages in when they are feeling defensive or threatened. Example sentence: The employee exhibited defensive behavior when her manager asked about her progress on the project.
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We evaluated defensive behavior with a repeated behavioral rank assay and a repeated sting assay (Giray et al. 2000; Guzmán-Novoa et al. 2003).
We evaluated defensive behavior with a repeated behavioral rank assay and corroborated the results with a repeated sting assay (Giray et al. 2000).
These behavioral processes include defensive behavior, predatory aggression, and depression- and anxiety-like behaviors.
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.7554/eLife.06633.019 Following successful ablation, we tested mice across a variety of behavioral paradigms involving defensive behavior.
The behavioral assay ranks four components of defensive behavior that reflect the main defensive behaviors (i.e. stinging and guarding) (Giray et al. 2000; Guzmán-Novoa et al. 2003).
Scoring of defensive behavior followed a previously published procedure56.
Three calves were monitored for activity and defensive behavior during exposure.
Vale, R., Evans, D. A. & Branco, T. Rapid spatial learning controls instinctive defensive behavior in mice.
Fanselow, M. S. Neural organization of the defensive behavior system responsible for fear.
Host defensive behavior, not reduced DMI or DMD, appears to be reducing ADG of calves exposed to stable flies.
CRF receptor subtype 1 (CRF1), abundantly expressed in the central nervous system, has been implicated in defensive behavior in rodents.
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