If you hand over something to another but refuse to let it go, it can be perceived as teasing, especially if it happens several times. A playful poke over and over at someone who wants to be in peace can also be perceived as teasing.
The one who teases generally does so to elicit a reaction. It can be as part of a game, a search for contact, a survey, or just because it's fun to speed up someone.
There is a limit that makes it better to talk about bullying, but bullying when it comes to animals is not the same as bullying among people. Birds of prey may join together as a bullying mob to chase a predator away. A group of magpies attacking an owl, for example.
Animals that play and are teased show that they have identified a conscious being in the one being teased. Someone who is expected to react. No animal would think of teasing a tree branch, even if it moves.
First two examples of bullying, then variations on teasing.
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Raptor bullied by prey
Raptor with prey
mobbed by prey
It's a pity that the end
of the drama is missing
The cockatoo in the next example
is perfectly aware of his move
A look from the kookaburra
is enough to abort the attempt
Next, a master at playing innocent
Mentalization or ’Theory of Mind’
is when someone makes a picture
of what is going on inside another
Magpies have made
a reputation as pranksters
With focus on cats
Gibbons can also be teasers
The cat and the monkey know each other
but apparently it's fun to tease anyway ...
... even big cats ...
... and dogs
It's tough to be teased
when a ’No!’ doesn't count
Is the cat teasing
or is it an attempt to make contact?
Finally, an example
where one of the great apes
is teasing a country cousin
In this case it is probably not
a search for contact
rather a way of making fun
at someone else's expense
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