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Bunting is a form of animal behaviour, often found in cats, in which the animal butts or rubs their head against other things, including people. Bunting as a behaviour can be viewed as a variation of scent rubbing. This is when an animal, typically a carnivore, will rub it's back on a scent such as prey or the urine of a conspicific. Evolutionarily speaking, scent rubbing is the oldest form of scent communication and bunting is a derivative of this behaviour. Rolling in the scent of another animal was an adaptation to camouflage the scent of a predator or outside male in order to get closer to mates. Bunting is generally considered to be a form of territorial scent-marking behaviour, where the cat rubs the scent glands on their cheeks and forehead on the object being marked. After a display of aggression, a cat will begin bunting objects in that immediate area as a form of territorial display toward a rival cat. Bunting and allorubbing are also part of feral cat behaviour within colonies. An elaborate ritual which can take several minutes, two cats will rub along the side and tail of the other cat. This behaviour in domestic cats involves a system of hierarchy and may have evolved as a way to channel aggression where the costs of a conflict is too high. Cat's also use bunting as a way to familiarize themselves to their environment and the pheromones secreted work to ease the cat's anxieties about an unfamiliar area. Bunting is a normal animal behaviour, and should be distinguished from head pressing, which is abnormal and typically a sign of illness.

Development
The practice of bunting stems from the behaviour that arises when kittens are very young and seek stimulation from their mother by rubbing and kneading. This behaviour develops throughout the animals life and is not only found in cats. It has also been found in other carnivorous mammals and some ungulates. Bunting in ungulates has no olfactory function but may have a role in the weaning of young. When a juvenile is nursing from it's mother, it will bunt the udder with it's head. This is to stimulate milk production or "let down" and causes some pain to the mother when the bunting movement is frequently performed. Overtime, there is an increase in the amount of times the udder is bunted by the young. This causes the mother to react in an attempt to prevent further pain. This reaction of the mother can be any form of defensive behaviour from a nipping bite, moving away from the young, or a jab of her horns. Bunting in domesticated and wild cat species has olfactory roots and has a range of uses which include, but are not limited to, mother-young association bonds, greeting/welcoming of kin, diffusing potential aggression in social environments, and distributing scent on areas to cultivate familiarity.

Cattle
Bunting behaviour is a display of aggression in cattle. When two cattle are rivaling each other, they will often use bunting as a form of defense. Cattle will attempt to bunt the rival cattle with the goal of bunting their head under the hind legs of the animal. This occurs when one cattle shows submission during the final moments of a feud, and this specific behavior is calling clinching. The behaviour of bunting within cattle is first observable in calves. As a form of play fighting, a young calf will bunt the flank of it's mother. A new born calf will bunt the mother's udder and this stimulates milk flow. It has been found that when calves are taken from their mothers, and raised artificially, the calf will attempt to bunt the artificial teat when milk is not being produced quick enough.

Horses
Horses will rub the bottom of their jaw onto others as a form of greeting. As seen in cattle, horse foals will bunt the mother's udder in order to stimulate milk production. Another example of bunting is when a dam experiences pain while a foal is suckling. The dam will proceed to bunt the foal with her head, non-aggressively, to prevent further discomfort. Many foals will play fight with one and other; displaying the bunting behaviour. The foal will push it's head against another foal's body in an attempt to knock the other off-balance.

Lions
Similarly to domesticated cats, lions also use bunting as a form of greeting and territorial marking. Lions will often greet each other with this head bunting behavior when returning to a pride after a hunt. In the early stages of life, cubs procure stimulation from their mother as she cleans them by rubbing and licking them. This behaviour carries throughout their lives and bunting remains a primal source of interaction between adults as it stimulates a familiar interaction between kin.

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