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      • Animal groups are often organized hierarchically, with dominant individuals gaining priority access to resources and reproduction over subordinate individuals. Initial dominance hierarchy formation may be influenced by multiple interacting factors, including an animal's individual attributes, conventions and self-organizing social dynamics.
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  1. Jan 10, 2022 · In a dominance hierarchy, individuals are arrayed in a line from most to least dominant; individuals are dominant to those below them in the hierarchy and subordinate to those above them in the hierarchy.

  2. Jan 12, 2022 · In the decades since Schjelderup-Ebbe’s first observations, researchers have learned much about dominance hierarchies, including the ways animals signal their superiority to others, the clever ways they avoid conflict and how factors like group size and social alliances affect the order.

  3. Dominance hierarchy, a form of animal social structure in which a linear or nearly linear ranking exists, with each animal dominant over those below it and submissive to those above it in the hierarchy. Dominance hierarchies are best known in social mammals, such as baboons and wolves, and in.

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  4. Jan 1, 2021 · Some of the main measures used to quantify dominance hierarchies in primates are described here. Two widely used summary indices are linearity and steepness. Dominance hierarchies are often measured in terms of their linearity, i.e., the degree to which the rank order is transitive (de Vries 1995).

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  5. Feb 19, 2018 · Understanding how social hierarchies are established can answer deep questions about the brain’s general adaptation to its social milieu and about individual markers for mental health and brain plasticity. In most social species, dominance status is established after animals engage in repeated social contests [1].

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  6. Initial dominance hierarchy formation may be influenced by multiple interacting factors, including an animal’s individual attributes, conventions and self-organizing social dynamics.

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  8. Jun 10, 2020 · In social animals, the formation of dominance hierarchy is essential for maintaining the stability and efficacy of social groups. A study by Wang and colleagues employ a...

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