I think ALL animals including humans are very territorial. This winter I noticed more coyotes in the back. We could hear them at night fighting over territories. Horses do that as well in the wild and they do it in captivity as well, and often have a pecking order. With all our wisdom often we are no better than the chickens that will peck the low man to death. Is that not what we do only on some grand scale? No, often I don't think man is much better than the chicken at times we are constantly pecking at each other.

And I don't blame the intellegent humans for getting bored with it all. One of the things I noticed was the nicest pony I had on the farm was the lowest on the totum pole in the pecking order. I separated her and allowed her to get the break she so deserved.

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