What is Ritualized Aggression?
Animals use the behaviours range to intimidate intruders and defend their territories, but without engaging in the fights that are expensive in terms of risk of injury and energy. This is the ritualized aggression. Such defence either frequently involves a graded series of behaviours or displays, which include threatening gestures (such as vocalizations, spreading of gill covers or wings, presentation, and lifting of claws, tail, and body beating) and direct attack, finally.