A low-ranking young female chimpanzee wounded from attempting to enter the female social hierarchy. Fighting to improve their social status after initially joining the pecking order appears to be ...

Social pecking order gives roosters something to crow about. ... “the dominance hierarchy might still exist, ... might help female birds in the audience separate winner males from losers.

Female monkeys are more dominant when they live in groups with a higher percentage of males. ... Many animals living in groups have a social hierarchy, a so-called 'pecking order'. Monkeys, too, ...

Turkeys, by contrast, establish their pecking order. “The dominance hierarchy is hugely important in whether [toms] can get close to females and display without being interrupted.” ...

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 ...

In 1921, as a graduate student, he coined the term “pecking order,” to describe the hierarchy in barnyard chickens. As a child, Schjelderup-Ebbe tended to the family flock, ...

A rare case in nature in which the female of a bird species has better spatial and learning abilities than the male. ... Being lower in pecking order improves female tit birds' memory. Springer ...