1) Animal communication 2) Crowding around
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When a group of similar/same species of birds band together to chase an intruder away.
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Mobbing in the context of human beings means bullying of an individual by a group in any context, such as a family, friends, peers, school, workplace, neighborhood, community, or online. When it occurs as emotional abuse in the workplace, such as `ganging up` by co-workers, subordinates or superiors, to force someone out of the workplace through.....
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[Scots law] Under the law of Scotland, mobbing, also known as mobbing and rioting, is the formation of a mob engaged in disorderly and criminal behaviour. The crime occurs when a group combines to the alarm of the public `for an illegal purpose, or in order to carry out a legal purpose by illegal means, e.g. violence or intimidation`. This ...
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[animal behavior] Mobbing in animals is an antipredator behavior which occurs when individuals of a certain species mob a predator by cooperatively attacking or harassing it, usually to protect their offspring. A simple definition of mobbing is an assemblage of individuals around a potentially dangerous predator. This is most frequently see...
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• (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Mob
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(from the article `social behaviour in animals`) ...and spirited attacks upon predators occur in most animals that protect their young and are a regular phenomenon in gull and tern colonies, in ...
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When birds gang up on another species to harass and drive away predators or intruders- e.g., Tree Swallows driving off a bluebird or House Sparrow or a human, often while making harsh vocalizations.
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Behavior in which a number of birds (often different species) swoop and dash at a potential predator; they usually give broad-band, raspy calls (mobbing calls) that are easy to locate and thus attract additional birds.
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