"The truly dominant individual can be recognized by the almost complete absence of such actions. If the ostensibly dominant member of the group does, in fact, perform a large number of small displacement activities, then this means that his official dominance is being threatened in someway by the other individuals present."
Desmond Morris

January 1, 1970

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Chapter 5, "Fighting" (p. 140)

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