A century ago, foundational work by Thorleif Schjelderup-Ebbe described a 'pecking order'in
chicken societies, where individuals could be ordered according to their ability to exert their …

Highlights•Aggression in adults is shaped by early life experiences and other
factors.•Dominance hierarchies limit conflict escalation and maintain social stability.• …

Dominance behaviours have been collected for many groups of animals since 1922 and
serve as a foundation for research on social behaviour and social structure. Despite a …

Dominance hierarchies are expected to form in response to socioecological pressures and
competitive regimes. We assess dominance relationships among free-ranging female Asian …

This study investigates the structure of social hierarchies. We hypothesized that if social
dominance relations serve to regulate conflicts over resources, then hierarchies should …

Social inequality is a consistent feature of animal societies, often manifesting as dominance
hierarchies, in which each individual is characterized by a dominance rank denoting its …

Social interactions for many species of animals are critical for survival, wellbeing, and
reproduction. Optimal navigation of a social system increases chances for survival and …

Social dominance hierarchies are widespread, but little is known about the mechanisms that
produce nonlinear structures. In addition to despotic hierarchies, where a single individual …

We develop a method to infer community structure in directed networks where the groups
are ordered in a latent one-dimensional hierarchy that determines the preferred edge …

In social Hymenoptera with no morphological caste, a dominant female becomes an egg
layer, whereas subordinates become sterile helpers. The physiological mechanism that links …