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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. 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.

    • keren.klass@mail.utoronto.ca
  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. Direct conflict is rare; an animal usually steps aside when confronted by one of higher rank.

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  4. Sep 7, 2015 · Here we test whether social dynamics influence male hierarchy dynamics in wild baboons, which exhibit linear dominance hierarchies in combination with pronounced inter-individual differences in traits that are known to influence dominance rank [7,22].

    • Mathias Franz, Emily McLean, Jenny Tung, Jeanne Altmann, Susan C. Alberts
    • 10.1098/rspb.2015.1512
    • 2015
    • 2015/09/09
  5. 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.

  6. Feb 28, 2022 · In this review, we describe the behaviours used to establish and maintain dominance hierarchies across different taxa and types of societies.

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  8. Sep 17, 2018 · Our results indicate context-dependent dominance and individual social roles in the captive chimpanzee group, one broadly defined dominance structure in the Tibetan macaque group, and high within...

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