Territoriality ... that instinctual survival passion to possess and protect:

• territoriality(n.): 1. territorial quality, condition, or status; 2. the behaviour of an animal in defining and defending its territory; 3. attachment to or protection of a territory or domain. [1890-95]. (Webster’s College Dictionary).

• territoriality(n.): a behaviour pattern in animals consisting of the occupation and defence of a territory. (American Heritage Science Dictionary).

• territoriality(n.): the behaviour of a male animal that defines and defends its territory. (Princeton’s WordNet 3.0).

• territoriality(n.): (zoology) the behaviour shown by an animal when establishing and defending its territory. (Collins English Dictionary).

For instance (found at random on the world-wide web):

• [quote] ‘The triune brain is a model of the evolution of the vertebrate forebrain and behaviour, proposed by the American physician and neuroscientist Paul D. MacLean (...) in his 1990 book ‘The Triune Brain in Evolution’. (...). The triune model of the mammalian brain is seen as an oversimplified organising theme by some in the field of comparative neuroscience. It continues to hold public interest because of its simplicity. While technically inaccurate as an explanation for brain activity, it remains one of very few approximations of the truth we have to work with: the ‘neocortex’ represents that cluster of brain structures involved in advanced cognition, including planning, modelling and simulation; the ‘limbic brain’ refers to those brain structures, wherever located, associated with social and nurturing behaviours, mutual reciprocity, and other behaviours and affects that arose during the age of the mammals; and the ‘reptilian brain’ refers to those brain structures related to territoriality, ritual behaviour and other ‘reptile’ behaviours (...)’. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triune_brain).

• [quote] ‘(...) the International Labor Organization’s Resolution 169, the universally accepted benchmark for defining an indigenous people (...) stipulates that indigenous people have both territory or habitat and ‘territoriality’ – that is, they get to say what goes on inside that territory, i.e., they are autonomous’. (p. 87, ‘¡Zapatistas!: Making Another World Possible’ by John Ross; 2006, Nation Books; New York).

(https://books.google.com.au/books?id=6IXSw8SSyfcC).

• territoriality (n.): 1. territorial quality, condition, or status; 2. the behaviour of an animal in defining and defending its territory; 3. attachment to or protection of a territory or domain. [1890-95; from late Middle English from Latin territōrium, ‘land round a town’, ‘district’, from terr(a), ‘earth’, ‘land’ + -ial, adjectival suffix + -ity]. ~ (Webster’s College Dictionary).

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