Word: counterdisplay
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Dates: during 1971-1971
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...empty kerosene cans from the author's camp and then charged at the other males, bellowing ferociously and banging the cans together as he came. Appalled by the din, his rivals fled. Swaggering absurdly, Mike challenged Goliath, the dominant male, and in a drama of display and roaring counterdisplay he broke the older male's nerve. After that, whenever the two met, they rushed up to each other like a couple of rival jocks and worked off their anxiety by hugging, slapping, grooming-and kissing each other on the neck. "Never, however," the author reassures us, "have...
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