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“Territorial Behaviour” by Desmond Morris is an essay in which he breaks down human territory into three categories: Tribal, Family, and Personal. He argues that the instinctive territorial behaviour possessed by humans solves more problems than it creates. His essay is a very well thought out one. He presents his argument very well, and gives enough evidence to support it. After reading his essay, I was satisfied with it. It did not leave me unclear …

…It is quite a wordy essay. His essay is spread over five pages and twenty-two paragraphs. I think he could’ve condensed his essay and made it a little more brief. Long essays tend to bore a reader and make them lose focus or attention. Yet overall, his essay is a very good one. Morris gives sufficient evidence to enforce his main idea, and presents it in a very well organized, matter of fact manner.