Sentence examples for guarding behavior from inspiring English sources
Conversely, lean times bring out the aforementioned resource guarding behavior.
The guarding behavior, though, may conflict with males' pursuit of extra-pair fertilizations.
Wharten (1960 , 1966 reported several cases where females found near their young stood their ground and considered these to be examples of guarding behavior.
To assess flinching and guarding behavior, animals were placed in raised plexiglass chambers with a wire grid floor for observation of flinching and guarding of the right hindlimb.
However, based on depth data from lingcod tagged with pressure sensors, we believe that at least one fish, initially tagged at 54 cm TL, exhibited nest guarding behavior during the 2009 breeding season.
Limping and/or guarding behavior of the right (cancer injected) hindlimb was rated on the following scale: 0 = complete lack of use, 1 = partial non-use, 2 = limping and guarding, 3 = limping, 4 = normal walking.
Such attempts by males to control their mates represent a potential source of conflict [3 5], but guarding behaviors in species where it is difficult for males to control their mates suggest that conflict is not inevitable [6, 7].
Further, nests of L. leucozonium in NA have low rates of parasitism compared with closely related species studied in the same habitats [16], which may be attributed to unusual nest building and guarding behaviors [16], [48].
It should be noted that inflammatory pain is complexed with multiple modulators including neurotransmitters, receptors and voltage-gated ion channels [27] and diverse pain behaviors including spinal withdrawal reflexes, spino-bulbospinal jumping or abdominal stretching reflexes and simple vocalization, scratching, biting, licking and guarding behaviors.
Both egg smearing and guarding behaviors share an intimate contact between the female and her eggs at the oviposition site.
These changes can create hormonally driven guarding behaviors and fighting for male attention in females.
