But they do have their own ways of maintaining social order, which seem to have served their needs well enough over millennia. It’s a bit authoritarian by our standards, but the pecking order – in ...

Remove the top male spotty fish and, within minutes, the next-in-line female morphs into the tank s new tyrant charging and nipping rivals while her body quietly begins a weeks-long transition to male ...

There is even a popular colloquial term for those hierarchies: A pecking order, which is used as a metonym for any social hierarchy, particularly workplace ones.

University of Otago—Ōtākou Whakaihu Waka scientists have discovered that it takes mere minutes for a species of sex-changing fish to develop dominant behavior after a change in the pecking order.

The term pecking order came about in the 1920s from the writings of Norway's Thorleif Schjelderup on his study of social order among hens. A hen pecks another who is lower on her social scale ...

I call it a pecking order in policy. The administration - and its titular head - needs to define the hierarchy of tasks ahead in order to face the many challenges of the moment.

CLEVELAND, Ohio — The Cleveland Browns training camp is still about a month away and the answer to who will start at quarterback is up for grabs. Any pecking order that may have been established ...

While the quarterback order Friday doesn’t guarantee anything for September, it does reveal the initial internal hierarchy.

This somewhat satirical verbal crusade unfolds with all of the women comparing their lives to one another, consequently reinforcing the pecking order that defines their relationships.

The institutional pecking order of “who hires whom” is remarkably steep across all field and domains of study, ranging from only 5% (classics) to 23% (animal science) of faculty employed at ...

University of Otago—Ōtākou Whakaihu Waka scientists have discovered that it takes mere minutes for a species of sex-changing fish to develop dominant behavior after a change in the pecking order.