In agonistic behaviour in bears...?

Question

Agnostic behaviour is known as aggression and submission together. It is displayed when there is a contest that will determine which competitor gains access to a particular resource this is to make the animal look large and fierce, this is usually through exaggerated postures. There are agnostic signals they provide information about the likely intention and levels of commitment of the senders, as well as the relative fighting ability if escalation occurs. After a while the animal will stop threatening and end with a display of submission or an appeasement “an animal that has no threat and just wants to be friends”. An agnostic relationship is when one animal is dominant and the other is very submissive. how would i see this in brown bears ????? can anyone explain in full , comeone i know theres clever people out there!!!

Answer 1

Agnostic is a person who does not believe in God because human knowledge is limited to experience, not faith.

I would recommend you check your text again.

You are probably searching for the word "Antagonistic".

Answer 2

shot  to bits that one!!

Answer 3

Agnostic bears? Are you serious?

Bears aren't sure if God exists?

Well I never knew that. Thanks.

Answer 4

Ignore these uneducated idiots, you are quiet right in you description of Agonistic behaviour,

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agonistic_b...

http://glossary.gardenweb.com/glossary/a...

Maybe they are thinking atheist,

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atheism.

Anyway to see this in brown bears you would have to do an Ethogram of the species. This involves watching the bears and making note of their different behaviours. There will be certain agressive and appeasing behaviours that the bears exhibit which will give an indication of the dominance of a certain bear over another. Unfortunatly I don't know what these behaviours are so I can't really tell you anymore. You maybe able to find an ethogram of the Brown bear on line which should give you details of these certain behaviours.

You could try these searchs as they will be more scientifically focused which is what you need.  

http://www.scirus.com/

and

http://scholar.google.co.uk/schhp?ie=UTF...