"Alison" wrote in message
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"Trish" wrote in message
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That's very true, cats moreso than any other animal. Once they
stake claim
to a place they will defend it to their death.

That's not actually correct. Cats are very territorial and will
defend their home range but if an aggressor is too strong and
persistant then they will leave the area and move on.(flight) The
name of the game is survival: a cat need its territory to survive but
there's no point in fighting if it's going to end up badly hurt or
dead.

You may find this book interesting by Ashley Montaqu "Nature of
Human
Aggression" It discusses the fight or flight syndrome and references
varies
animals to support or disprove theories..

That's sounds a very interesting book. I'll have a look on
Amazon. Did he give the references he used to support his theory re
cats ?
Alison


If I remember correctly he did, its been a few years since I've read the
book. I wrote a presentation on the book for one of my human evolution
courses in university. It's easy reading, however it was written in the
60's and as times change so do theories.