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  1. Jan 10, 2022 · In societies with convention-based dominance, individuals have unique attributes that single them out as the next dominant, (e.g. age, tenure in a group or maternal rank) without reflecting intrinsic characteristics that allow individuals to win contests [73,74]. For example, some social insects determine dominance based on the seniority convention.

  2. Accessed 17 November 2024. 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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  3. Jan 1, 2021 · In species characterized by single-male groups, the dominance hierarchy describes relationships among the females only (and vice versa), whereas in multi-male/multi-female groups, all adults of one sex are usually dominant over the other (e.g., the more rare female dominance in ring-tailed lemurs; Koyama et al. 2005), and the dominance hierarchies of males and females are often analyzed ...

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  4. Nov 11, 2023 · However, this does not mean that all males have an equal opportunity to mate with all females. In multi-male, multi-female groups, both males and females form a dominance hierarchy. The male dominance hierarchy determines their access to females for mating in much the same way that a female dominance hierarchy determines a female’s access to ...

  5. For example, during social play juveniles receive reinforcement from adults about how dominance hierarchies work, and what it means to have a given rank within a social group of a given species ...

  6. Jan 12, 2022 · Dominance hierarchies were first described in chickens a century ago by a Norwegian zoologist who coined the term “pecking order.”. Since then researchers such as University of Cincinnati biologist Elizabeth Hobson have examined the intricacies of conflict and competition in species as diverse as primates, whales, birds and insects.

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  8. Dominance traits are seen in virtually all primate species, and these dimensions reflect how adept an individual is at ascending within a social hierarchy. Among great apes, dominance is one of the most prominent personality factors but, in humans, dominance is usually modeled as a facet of extraversion.