Behavior Glossary

Attack

Description Aggressive physical contact between two (or more) individuals. Components of attack (which occur singly or several at a time) include: charge, stamping on the back, lifting and slamming, dragging, slapping, scratching, hair pulling, biting, grappling. An attack (video). If you choose, you can download the QuickTime 5 player at <a href="www.apple.com/quicktime">www.apple.com/quicktime</a> to view this movie.
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Facial expression of attacker is often the compressed lips face, but may be full open grin. The attacker is usually silent but may scream. The victim often crouches submissively during attack, screaming with full open grin. Sometimes it tries to pull away and escape (face and sound the same) and sometimes it turns and attacks back (usually the case with females of similar rank). In the latter case both animals normally scream with full open grin.

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