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

In this article, we investigate how context influences color preferences by comparing preferences
for “contextless” colored squares with preferences for colors of a variety of objects (eg, …

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 …

Social hierarchies are widespread in human and animal societies, and an individual’s
position in its hierarchy affects both its access to resources and its fitness. Hierarchies are …

How are color preferences formed, and can they be changed by affective experiences with
correspondingly colored objects? We examined these questions by testing whether …

Although social hierarchies are recognized as dynamic systems, they are typically treated as
static entities for practical reasons. Here, we ask what we can learn from a dynamical view …

GPS‐based tracking is widely used for studying wild social animals. Much like traditional
observational methods, using GPS devices requires making a number of decisions about …

Individuals and societies are linked through a feedback loop of mutual influence. Demographic
turnover shapes group composition and structure by adding and removing individuals, …

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 wealth of …

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 …