Analysis Of Desmond Morris's Territorial Behavior

Territory In Desmond Morris’s story, “Territorial Behavior,” holds a lot of interesting information inside his story. Furthermore, the one idea that stood out to the most in Morris’s story would be over his topic of tribal territory, and family territory. Also, on how humans almost act the same way about their territory the same way animals do. Furthermore, tribal territory is consisted around where people live with their family and friends and the land that surrounds the home. As Morris puts “It is our basic social unit, a group in which everyone knows everyone else” (Morris 310). Moreover, when strangers try to come into what people call their territory they push the strangers away and out of their territory. In addition, animals would …show more content…
As Morris puts it “the family is a breeding unit and the family territory ais a breeding ground” (Morris 311). Moreover, thats how most human family’s live, and how animals do live, with a bed or place to sleep and shelter. However, as similar they might bein their living conditions it could potentially be catastrophic to mix animals with humans. “Then the animals started to arrive, and Barilla soon discovered the complexities (and possible mayhem) of merging human with animal habitats” (Barilla 5). In addition, there has been people such as James Barilla, who learned to live in the same habitat with animals, and has come to love “The complications and contradictions are almost paralyzing, but I’ve come to appreciate the power of our affinity for wildlife, of our desire for an immediate, positive relationship” (Barilla 325). This tells people that the animals started to feel safe in the territorially sense at Barilla’s house for they didn’t what to leave and most likely protected it from other animals. At first Barilla didn’t want the animals on his territory because he felt unsafe at first at his home but eventually he became accustomed to having the animals there. Humans also mate and repopulate much like animals do and work to provide food and shelter for their family. For example, humans work at a job to get money to pay for the shelter and food for their …show more content…
Humans tend to stay in groups but live with just their family. Furthermore, animals usually live with other animals on the same land but in different places on the territory. Moreover, for both humans and animals, they have their own shelter but live in a big territory full of other people or creatures, even