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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Martin Oosthuysen" data-source="post: 40824" data-attributes="member: 1070">Okay you are not grasping the context at the moment, aggression is a word I used correctly and shown above how it is applied. The tarantula is aggressive which is proven in the definition of the word,I don't care who says what or is the dictionary being applied as one feels ? The simple easy to understand meaning of the applied word is correct, no matter how you'd like to see it. If it bothers you so much,I suggest rewrite the English dictionary since that is the only way to change the word or words which does not agree with you. You are applying your views as you see fit,I poke a hole you try and block and patch it. Let us not quarrel over a point above,stick to that answer that and we can have a debate since now you are grasping and using analogies to make a point yet the word exists under that meaning and is applied in humans and animals.Again look at the word and its meaning,applied in different facets and not being used incorrectly. Seems people don't like certain words,no matter how disliked it is fact and is true. Then saying now if one passes a certain area,which was previously just the enclosure now is more that it is defensive doesn't make any sense. Let's again use the word as it was meant to be,and reply accordingly or this debate is redundant and going off path.Where certain specimens go out of their way to do you harm,no matter in or outside their comfort zone where a perfect example is of what happened on a YouTube video running out of the enclosure while attacking multiple times and continuing over a bed and off of the bed let me guess the whole room is the tarantulas ? Haha I have added the points made from above yet again,since nothing was answered accordingly. I have added a highlight in the yet again pasted content,should be easy to differentiate from the original. Since aggression is a multi faceted word,I will stick with certain ones being aggressive. HIGHLIGHTS- including anti-predator aggression(human being seen as the predator like stated not by me)- resident-intruder aggression(entering the enclosure)- defensive aggression (fear-induced)- It may occur either in retaliation or without provocation- IT IS A VIRTUALLY UNIVERSAL BEHAVIOUR AMONG ANIMALSAggression is overt, often harmful, social interaction with the intention of inflicting damage or other unpleasantness upon another individual. It is a virtually universal behavior among animals. It may occur either in retaliation or without provocation. In humans, frustration due to blocked goals can cause aggression. aggression is a response by an individual that delivers something unpleasant to another person. Some definitions include that the individual must intend to harm another personAggression can take a variety of forms which may be expressed physically or communicated verbally or non-verbally: including anti-predator aggression, defensive aggression (fear-induced), predatory aggression, dominance aggression, inter-male aggression, resident-intruder aggression, maternal aggression, species-specific aggression, sex-related aggression, territorial aggression, isolation-induced aggression, irritable aggression, and brain-stimulation-induced aggression (hypothalamus).</blockquote>

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