Sentence examples for territorial defense from inspiring English sources

Females exhibit sex-specific territorial defense [46], and competition among females for feeding territories to support their physiologically expensive foraging and maternal behavior may result in FBD.

Faeces may represent an ideal substance for marking, because it has a minimal energetic cost to the signaler [11], and can continue to indicate possession of a territory when the owner is occupied in activities other than territorial defense.

Territorial defense and resident fidelity become reduced.

Territorial defense does not always involve actual combat.

The territorial defense mission lost its rationale when the Berlin Wall fell.

This permits sophisticated exchanges between fish during conflicts, courtship, and territorial defense.

This state-administered amnesia is similar to territorial defense in the animal kingdom.

Sound is important to owls, especially in mating and territorial defense.

[The prosecutor] is accusing the army and the police, the volunteers and the territorial defense.

Since 1958 the military administration has been divided by various functions; it includes strategic nuclear forces, territorial-defense forces, mobile forces, and task forces.

As intended, this would allow the final 3 years for the AFP to return to a focus on territorial-defense, but the security environment around the archipelago would demand more urgent attention well before 2014 (De Castro and Lohman 2012).