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Costs of escalated territorial defence in red squirrels
Canadian Journal of Zoology, 1994The costs of escalated territorial defence have not been well-documented, although in theoretical studies they are often assumed to be high. We manipulated territorial defence in red squirrels (Tamiasciurus hudsonicus) to assess the costs of territorial disputes in terms of energy, reproductive status, and predation. Feeders containing sunflower seeds
A. Kari Stuart-Smith, Stan Boutin
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Territorial Rights and National Defence
2014Abstract Both just war theory and international law recognize the defence of one’s own state and its territory as the core example of just cause for war. Yet just war theorists have done little to explore what might give the state a territorial right of this kind. This chapter argues that a state has a right to territorial integrity when
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Developing Competences and Attitudes among Territorial Defence Personnel
Security Dimensions, 2018This article presents aspects of developing the competences of the soldiers of Territorial Defence Forces (TDF) – albeit, due to the vastness of the subject matter, it only partially explores this topic. Particular attention has been paid to the wide spectrum of the competences of a Territorial Defence officer who performs the roles of a commander ...
Wojciech Horyń +2 more
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Territory at Stake! In Defence of ‘Religion’ and ‘Islam’
2022In the face of criticisms of the utility of the term religion, this chapter argues that comparison is a universal cognitive instinct and that meanings are made by comparison and analogy within and between categories. Thus we are better off keeping the term religion to describe Islam or Christianity, while being aware that we are recategorizing it.
Susanne Olsson, Leif Stenberg
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TERRITORIAL DEFENCE IN LITHUANIA IN THE LATE 1930S
Military Scientific Journal, 2020In the interwar years, Lithuania faced a wide range of military threats, for two decades the nation did not maintain any diplomatic or economic relations with its neighbouring state Poland, which had occupied her historic capital Vilnius, while the relations with Germany remained tense over the Klaipėda Region.
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Song repertoires and territory defence in the great tit
Nature, 1978BIRD song is generally considered to have one or both of two main functions : attracting a mate and proclaiming a territory. The great tit (Parus major) is a typical songbird in that song is primarily a male vocalisation and it is produced before and during the breeding season (that is, from January to May in southern England). We have shown that great
JOHN KREBS, RUTH ASHCROFT, MIKE WEBBER
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Territorial Defence Facing the Challenge of Hybrid Warfare
Security Dimensions, 2018The course of present armed conflicts indicates the use of different instruments of power, whose major purpose is to gain control over the society and then exploit its resources. The nomenclature mentions hybrid warfare more and more frequently while seeking effective countermeasures against it.
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Winter territoriality and fruit defence by the fieldfare (Turdus pilaris)
Journal of Ornithology, 2006During the winter seasons of 2000/2001 and 2003/2004, 27 territorial fieldfares Turdus pilaris were observed in two study areas in southern Poland. Of these, 22 were in gardens or orchards with apple trees. Only 0.5% of all fieldfares noted during field surveys were territorial, and only 1.7% of the checked gardens and orchards were inhabited by that ...
Piotr Skórka +3 more
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Defence and Territorial Behaviour dissociated by Hypothalamic Lesions in the Rat
Nature, 1971IT has been pointed out that much of the literature on brain mechanisms of aggression fails to distinguish between different kinds of aggressive behaviour, and that this may account for some of the apparent contradictions in different publications1.
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