Social animals live and interact together, forming complex relationships and social structure.
These relationships can have important fitness consequences, but most studies do not …

Animal groups are often organized hierarchically, with dominant individuals gaining priority
access to resources and reproduction over subordinate individuals. Initial dominance …

Effective policies to halt biodiversity loss require knowing which anthropogenic drivers are
the most important direct causes. Whereas previous knowledge has been limited in scope …

Animals lead rich social lives. They care for one another, compete for resources, and mate.
Within a society, social relationships may be simple or complex and usually vary …

Highlights► Elo-rating generates reliable dominance hierarchies and circumvents
drawbacks of established ranking methods.► It allows visualizing dominance relationships …

In humans and obligatory social animals, individuals with weak social ties experience
negative health and fitness consequences. The social buffering hypothesis conceptualizes …

For animals living in mixed-sex social groups, females who form strong social bonds with
other females live longer and have higher offspring survival [1–3]. These bonds are highly …

Decisions that favor one's own interest versus the interest of another individual depend on
context and the relationships between individuals. The neurobiology underlying selfish …

Hierarchy is a reality of group life, for humans and for most other group-living species.
However, there remains considerable debate about whether and when hierarchy can …

Dominance captures behavioural patterns found in social hierarchies that arise from
agonistic interactions in which some individuals coercively exploit their control over costs …