The noisy miner has been recorded attacking an Australian owlet-nightjar (Aegotheles cristatus) during the day, grebes, herons, ducks and cormorants on lakes at the edge of territories, crested pigeons (Ocyphaps lophotes), pardalotes, and rosellas.
The minimum value for distance for the x-y or x-z axes was scored as the shortest distance from the edge of a territory to the edge of the nucleus for each chromosome territory in a nucleus.
As they should spend more time at the edge of the territory and in order to be able to defend an own territory soon, dispersers should also tend to be more aggressive than stayers.
"The American district advisor (like a county) was showing me the edge of 'secure' territory.
Inuvik, population 3,000, sits on the northern edge of the territory, in the Mackenzie River delta.
They were wandering about, bent over at the waist, sniffing the tips of tall grass stalks at the far edge of the territory of our largest study clan.
EL RETORNO, Colombia — He arrived at this town on the edge of guerrilla territory with his entourage.
Kurdish forces in both Iraq and Syria have now advanced to the edge of their territory but will advance no further.
(There is, for example, a group of Dravidians living south of Quetta, in Pakistan, on the edge of the territory occupied by the Indus valley civilisation).
A band of males, up to 20 or so, will assemble in single file and move to the edge of their territory.
In this small town a short drive from the edge of rebel territory, and in Sulaimaniya, 55 miles to the south, it is business as usual.
