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  1. Jan 10, 2022 · 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.

  2. In the zoological field of ethology, a dominance hierarchy (formerly and colloquially called a pecking order) is a type of social hierarchy that arises when members of animal social groups interact, creating a ranking system.

  3. Dominance hierarchies are best known in social mammals, such as baboons and wolves, and in birds, notably chickens (in which the term peck order or peck right is often applied). In most cases the dominance hierarchy is relatively stable from day to day.

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  4. Empirically, pairwise dominance relations often form a linear order or dominance hierarchy in an enormous range of species, including chimpanzees and bonobos (Wittig & Boesch, 2009; Murray et. al. 2006, 2007; Thompson et. al. 2007; Noe et. al. 1980; Vervaecke et. al. 2000;

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  5. 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 combination of comparative genomic and functional approaches to shed new light on both the genetic mechanisms and the evolutionary histories of dominance behavior. Many animals ...

  6. Jan 1, 2021 · In nonhuman primates, dominance hierarchies represent one dimension of group social organization. The dominance hierarchy is a clearly discernible ranking order of group individuals, determined by the outcomes of aggressive and submissive (together, agonistic) social interactions that create asymmetrical dominance relationships between individuals.

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  8. 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.

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