Social dominance influences the outcome of competitive interactions over limited resources, and may hence be important … dominance should prevail. In this field experiment we reciprocally cross-fostered great tits (Parus major) to blue tits (Parus … caeruleus) to investigate the impact of early social experience on dominance status in competition over food during winter …

groups either could or could not interact. We assessed male dominance rank and recorded survival times after mating. Females … mating and apparently could not distinguish rank from male scent. Effects of size and dominance on male reproductive success …

subject to selection because they affect the ability to dominate others. We investigated whether dominance rank at feeding … dominance hierarchies on the basis of observations between dyads of color-ringed individuals, and we used an experimental … dominance ranks than did slow-exploring territorial males in two out of three samples, and that dominance related negatively to …

Individuals within a species often compete for resources in both space and time. In dominance hierarchies individuals … use of habitat, aggression, and feeding success among giant kokopu (Galaxias argenteus) in dominance hierarchies under …

males were also more successful in obtaining matings, but this was measured nonindependently of dominance status. Our … results suggest that a male's dominance status and success in fights may indicate his immunocompetence to females. Copyright …

offspring survival. The curled feathers thus appear to function as a signal of social dominance, which is highly correlated with …

absence of a relationship between growth and dominance rank was not owing simply to an excess of food being available. The …

predicted. Our results clarify the interaction between the dominance structure and size of animal groups and add to the growing …

increased boldness, and (2) boldness predicts dominance status. Sea-ranched trout spend their first 2 years in the hatchery … selection are manifested very early in life. The concordance between boldness and dominance may suggest that these behaviors are …