Adding a general term for chasing behavior

[h-mayorquin]

So right now the ontology has the two following terms:

[Term]
id: NBO:0020040
name: chase prey
def: "Active pursuit of fleeing prey." []
is_a: NBO:0020292 ! capturing behaviour
disjoint_from: NBO:0020045 ! flush prey
created_by: Luke Slater

[Term]
id: NBO:0020141
name: agonistic chase
def: "Chasing of one animal by another during an agonistic conflict." []
is_a: NBO:0000121 ! agonistic behavior
created_by: Luke Slater

Now, I am reading the following paper:
Oxytocin neurons enable social transmission of maternal behaviour
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-021-03814-7

In the paper, a more experienced female mice (dam) chases a younger female mice with no experience (virgin) back to a litter. You can check about the video of the behavior here:

https://static-content.springer.com/esm/art%3A10.1038%2Fs41586-021-03814-7/MediaObjects/41586_2021_3814_MOESM7_ESM.mp4

This surely is a type of chase but I am not sure it matches well with "agonistic chase" (as it is not really conflict I think) and is definitly not a "chase prey" behavior as it is not hunting.

Would it make sense to have a general chase behavior that is a parent of two the terms above without specifying the context of the chase? Is there a better term in the ontology for this that I am not aware of? I am thinking that something like herding (as in sheep herding) is something to consider when organizing this cluster.

Relevant entries:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pursuit_predation
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herding

[DitchingIt]

Thanks @h-mayorquin . I'm currently doing a big (slow) rewrite and have chasing in my sights, so will keep this under review.

[h-mayorquin]

@DitchingIt Thanks for doing this work.

[DitchingIt]

See #124 for an explanation of why I am not following this up, but I will leave this issue open in case someone else wants to.