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can anyone let me know what behavoirs are setting up dominance. just wanna get an idea between fighting and dominance. any help would be great. thanks

Why do they fight????????? there must be a reason. I mean if fighting is different then dominance.

Ok, what is dominance? to dominate, what does that mean and how you they go about it?

Hmmmmm you and your little brother are at the table, theres two cookies on the table, you look at your little brother, you look around, no mom or dad. So you say to your brother, look over there, there's a spider, he looks, you grabbed and ate both cookies, what did you do and why? Then your little brother, sees what you have done, and jumps on you screaming and punching. What is he doing and why? He just keeps screaming and punching. So, you then have to smack the little begger around,ttt why and what are you know doing? I hope this helps, cause it was fun to write. FR

thank you for the response. what i was really trying to figure out is what it looks like when a male and a female or two females settle dominance issues and what it looks like when two males are fightin for territory. if there is any difference. thanks again

adam

I am afraid its a bit more complicated then that.

There may be hundreds of ways monitor express dominance. From a simple look, to killing the other individual. Also a result of unseen dominance is one individual just turning lethargic and continuing until death. Or until the stress is relieved.

So no, I cannot tell you what you want to hear, because it doesn't exsist that way. FR

fair enough. thanks for the info