Although they are lively, gentle mannered, demonstrably affectionate and sensitive, they are also fearless and possessed of a well-developed protective instinct.

He wasn't suspicious of her-not yet-but he had well-developed instincts against telling anyone more about himself than was absolutely necessary.

He yelped, ducked with an apprentice's well-developed instinct, and went pelting back the way he'd come.

So horses normally have good memories and a well-developed instinct for fear.

As an ambitious man with a well-developed instinct for self-preservation and survival, he knew what his course of action must be.

The principal told my father that instead of complaining about his son he should have compassion for the boys who were, he said, only acting out of a well-developed instinct for the survival of the group.

After a brisk chase lasting half an hour, during which Blondel's well-developed instincts indicated pursuit close behind, he went to ground in a dim-lit chili and tequila house peopled by furtive persons of unmistakably nonMonitorial appearance.

Haven: A birdlike creature with well-developed nesting instincts.

Horse behavior is best understood from the view that horses are prey animals with a well-developed fight-or-flight instinct.

While a panicky Congress has rushed in recent days to reform the business world, it has not entirely lost its well-developed instinct for catering to special interests.