r/AnimalBehavior • • 21h ago

Ostracism in animals

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We as human beings can ostracize eachother due to differences anger hurt desire to hurt or for pure selfish reasons such as power or gaining control.
Examples: the first black general in the US was ostracized for his skin colour.
A student at the us military academy was ostracized because he continued writing after the had been instructed to stop.

Do animals also get ostracized for the same reasons and stay ostracized?
I was looking into PUNCH’s story because he was ostracized but eventually he blended in and got accepted so I don’t think his story really align with what I want because he just didn’t have the socials skills needed because he was socializing with humans first.

I’m kind of lost and would love to hear yalls opinion on punch’s case and if u have other examples of ostracism in animals i would love to hear them too.