Following Darwin's original insights regarding sexual selection, studies of intrasexual
competition have mainly focused on male competition for mates; by contrast, female …

For sexual selection to act on a given sex, there must exist variation in the reproductive
success of that sex as a result of differential access to mates or fertilisations. The …

Grazing distribution patterns of large herbivores are affected by abiotic factors such as slope
and distance to water and by biotic factors such as forage quantity and quality. Abiotic …

Cattle are one of our major domesticated animals, a higher mammal with complex mental
and physical needs. The benefit of a knowledge of cattle behaviour means veterinarians and …

Pronghorn antelope are the fastest runners in North America, clocked at speeds of up to 100
kilometers per hour. Yet none of their current predators can come close to running this fast …

Outside the scientific world, the effect of social behaviour on production is little taken into
account, but the importance of this relationship has been sufficiently proven in some animal …

Summary 1 Although life‐history theory predicts substantial costs of reproduction,
individuals often show positive correlations among life‐history traits, rather than trade‐offs …

Socioecological models of the evolution of female-bonded societies predict a relation
between resource distribution and the nature of female affiliative and dominance …

In mammals, reproductive success may be positively correlated with both maternal age and
social rank. Because social rank often increases with age, however, the effects of rank and …

According to the socioecological framework, transitivity (or linearity) in dominance
relationships is related to competition over critical resources. When a population is …