| Okay, this may have absolutely NO relevance, but it seems an interesting similarity to me.
In horse herds there is a pecking order. Any horse beneath the rank of another horse will readily fight an intruder or perceived threat of the higher ranking horse. This happens all the time on trail rides. Folks that don't understand this are surprised when their (usually) submissive horse kicks out at a horse coming too close to that horse's alpha.
It seems logical that the same behavior would be natural for other species as well.
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