ethological explanation for aggression

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And if a logical explanation seeks to understand the behaviours of animals by studying them in their natural environment and accounting for behaviour in terms of its adaptive value to the species. aggression is seen as an adaptive innate mechanism therefore beneficial to the species for either resources or to establish dominance hierarchies .lorenz 1966 stated that the most adaptive type of aggression is ritualistic as it can still assert dominance but also mean they are not harmed or impair their child bearing abilities.

One adaptive response producing aggression is an innate releasing mechanism which is a biological structure or process which when activated by the science timnas will then trigger a fixed action process .I fixed action process is a sequence of stereotyped innate behaviours that are response shown by all members of the species and once triggered it can't be stopped .this was shown but in Bergen and his sticklebacks which was stimulated by a sign stimulus…