Which male animals are the most territorial?

Answer 1

most of the male animals are just trying to impress the females who actually run the show and are the most territorial

Answer 2

Females in space hypothesis
Territotiality of female microtine rodents (voles and lemmings) is food based, as they are excluding intruders from an important resource. Sparce , patchy distribution of food which is slowly renewed means that females are terrotorial. If resources are widely and evenly distributed and rapidly renewed then potential intruders are ubiquitous, incresing the cost of defense so females are not territorial. Territoriality in males is not food based, but is more responsive to the spatial distribution of potential mates. When females are patchy in their distribution (clumped non-territorial females) males defend this resource, but when they are widely distributed this makes territory defense more difficult so males are not territorial and 'gain' copulations by wandring and being unterritorial.

Crap! After writing all that I now see I didn't read your question properly!!!!! I would say a pygmy shrew, they are fiercely territorial, both male and female.

Answer 3

Caribbean Land Iguanas Have the Largest testes compared to body size of nay Land Vertebrate so If testosterone defines Territoriality then they win.

Answer 4

Humans

Answer 5

Alot of what people have said is true, like lions, men, and other stuff but I thing that sea walruses, and sea lions are territorial but all they want to do is mate and mate and mate. And if they lose their spots on the beach, they do get sex. So many sea lions and walrus fight alot and many of the young ones do die.

Answer 6

Damsel fish...they attack anything, any size, defending their little 'garden' of algae. I've been nipped, charged at, and squared-off by the little terrors (3 or 4 inches long) many times.

Answer 7

humans! territorial behaviour includes both for land-space and for mates.

Answer 8

i'd have to say the lions and the hyenas are both very territorial.

Answer 9

Jealous husbands.

Answer 10

humans i mean come on have you ever touched a black guys wife i mean come on that fool is all up in my grill and trys to punch me. but i used my cungfoo skills and coraty choped his ***. he was like a broken record player he cept repeating so i said stu stu studdr stu stu stupid. and then me and his wife got married the end.