Territorial Imperative : Obsession for ones territory
February 24th 2020, Bandhavgarh National park in Garhpuri, Madhya Pradesh.
Wintertide season and warm-noodles are two of the divine things I sensed during the trip. But that's not we're here to talk about. Rather to explore few unrecognized frames which need views and Ex Post facto research. Yes it's about "Territorial Imperative", which according to wikipedia mean nothing but a book named 'The Territorial Imperative: A Personal Inquiry Into the Animal Origins of Property and Nations' by Robert Ardrey.
What actually is Territorial Imperative ? Why we are talking about it ? and What can be an asset ?
Territorial imperative in a literary words implies, The obsession with protecting one's space by many means. Alike human beings are conscious about their land and space to become superior and tyrannise the sub-inferior class, animals also flash their dominance to other animal of either same kingdom or species. In a way animals communicate to other animals nearby their territory to let other know about their own. Now the reason behind mentioning my Bandhavgarh trip was to carry the idea of the search, which is Territorial imperatives. The area which was studied was divided into different core and buffer zones, where core zone was again distributed into 3 areas which were Tala, Maghdhi and Khitauli. Whereas the buffer zone was cooperated by the the village people. Bhandhavgarh has nearly 22 tigers from which where dominated by the 2 other tigers named Bheem aged 12 years and Bamerasan aged 9 years from the national park. What I experienced and undergo the facts from nearby ground village peoples and through the tourist guide was the territorial imperatives of the tigers. The bheem which was the strongest one had it's own territory marked throughout core maghdhi followed by sub-territories of the female tigress. On the other hand Bamerasan who was younger yet a strong competitor of bheem had his own territory with sub-territories of female tigress. The intriguing part was the way and measures of territorial imperatives, which was done by the means of claw markings on the tress, also urinating the area to command other animals including tigers. The tiger-battle is the phenomenal of all, the roar heightens the nearby villages. The floater tigers (Sub adults) try to do the same without combating other dominant tigers.
Since ages human language and communication have been studied by many scientist and revolutionaries, some researchers have also been working with the concept of animal mode of communication. The purpose behind the study is to understand or to relate the way of communication between two categories, sub-categories or in fact two totally different order lined animals. Communication study has rapidly growing area in disciplines including animal behavior, sociology, neurology and animal cognition. Few theories has also mentioned regarding their aspects of vocal learning, phonology, syntax, semantics, cognition and neurobiological adaptations, are shared with other animals.This study issued of Dorothy Cheney, an extraordinary and insightful primatologist who, with her husband Robert Seyfarth, studied vervet and baboon vocal communication and illuminated the importance of social cognition in primate evolution and language origins . Other researches like phonology, syntax and semantics of animal kingdom has been studied by Noam chomsky, a famous american linguistic and cognitive scientist. Comprehensive review on the neural mechanism has also been studied by Neider and Moorey. Graham et al. studied animal signal as the scope of research. According to a wide study of big wild cats, led by Oxford University scientists, has shown that tigers have bigger brains, relative to their body size, than lions, leopards or jaguars. Which may means greater cognitive manner to understand the territorial imperative.
Now the largest asset in the study of animal communication is to enhance the neurological study of communication between other species like tiger, birds, dogs and any other animal. Which may create a revolutionary start to the biological science and linguistics and will led to commendable landmark to the future.
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