The substance of today's chapter lies mainly in Minacou's segment.
Controlling others is principally a human obsession. Sure, animals get involved in that sort of thing to a degree. The alpha male of an animal grouping (herd, pack, whatever) can get pretty possessive about the females mating with other males if it's done within his eyesight, and alpha males will sometimes do away with offspring of their predecessors immediately after assuming their possessions. But it stops there and doesn't extend to other behaviors. Choice of friends, daily activities, and so on are always left to each individual's discretion. Humans alone seek to exercise control of subordinates, mates, associates, even strangers, whether actions take place in eyeshot or at a distance, in an almost ritualistic display of dominance; it's the human who has developed the notion of individual property and has expanded it to the treatment of others of his species as property. Slavery is a human invention, for instance; in other species interlopers are either killed off immediately or absorbed into the social unit without prejudice or lasting loss of status. And consider the male domination that so many men exert over their families (and, to a lesser degree, is similarly wielded by domineering wives) in terms of allowing or disallowing specific behaviors or even thought processes. Ever seen a dog or cat (or, for that matter, horse or guppy) act like that?
Something to think about.