Description

Attempts to mount another animal in the absence of intromission. Palpitations with forepaws and pelvic thrusts may be present.

This can be distinguished from copulatory mounting as follows:

1. The sequence of behaviors before and after mounting occurs
2. The absence of breeding pairs

Classification

Threat Behavior

Contexts

Agonistic interactions can occur in the context of territorial behavior, and/or dominance behavior.  Territorial behavior and dominance behavior differ in both the context that they occur, the resources under competition, and the threat behavior that initiates the interaction.

Variants

None