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territoryIn animal behaviour, a fixed area from which an animal or group of animals excludes other members of the same species. Animals may hold territories for many different reasons; for example, to provide a constant food supply, to monopolize potential mates, or to ensure access to refuges or nest sites. The size of a territory depends in part on its function: some nesting and mating territories may be only a few square metres, whereas feeding territories may be as large as hundreds of square kilometres. |
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There is much reason to believe, that the territory which now composes Ohio, Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, and a large portion of the country west of the Mississippi, lay formerly under water. There lay a vast territory, and in that territory were the hugest deposits in the world of iron and coal--the backbone of industrial civilization. What good is territory to Germany, territory over which she must rule by force, struggling always against the accumulated hatred of years? |
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