[DOC] [TLE] The King Chicken Theorems [PAR] whence the phrase pecking order. ... That is, it is rare that there is a first chicken 
who pecks all the others, a second ... sense of dominance and also implies that 
every flock of chickens has a king. ... We are led to discover and prove many 
theorems which say that kings are all too common. .... Hence b is a king of G (
Why?) [DOC] [TLE] Chicken - Wikipedia [PAR] The chicken (Gallus gallus domesticus) is a type of domesticated fowl, a 
subspecies of the red junglefowl. It is one of the most common and widespread 
domestic animals, with a .... Individual chickens in a flock will dominate others, 
establishing a "pecking ... When a rooster finds food, he may call other chickens 
to eat first. [DOC] [TLE] The Pecking Order What Is It and How to Avoid Problems in Your Flock [PAR] Sep 24, 2015 ... Posted by The Happy Chicken Coop on September 24, 2015 ... The term 'pecking 
order' was first coined in 1921 by Thorleif Schjelderup-Ebbe to describe the 
hierarchy of flock dynamics and it came into popular ... The matriarchs of the flock 
will be up to the top of the ladder, with less dominant birds at the... [DOC] [TLE] Chicken Politics: Life in the Flock - Daily Kos [PAR] Jun 26, 2014 ... Beyond Occupy - Five Years Hence. .... At feeding time, the dominant birds in the 
flock would eat first, ... The concept of the "dominance hierarchy" and "pecking 
order" was ... Far from being the dumb-as-a-rock "chicken brain" of popular image
, ... Another discovery made by Thorleif Schjelderup-Ebbe in his... [DOC] [TLE] Social Behavior, Animal - Dictionary definition of Social Behavior ... [PAR] Such a group of behavior patterns having a common general function, and 
usually ... When two chickens meet for the first time, each presents a problem of ... 
Dominancesubordination relationships are developed in any animal system ..... 
Primate societies do not present an evolutionary history of human social 
organization. [DOC] [TLE] The Secrets of Chicken Flocks' Pecking Order - Modern Farmer [PAR] Mar 16, 2016 ... Understanding the social hierarchy of the flock is one key to raising healthy, 
happy chickens. ... Even though the top chicken has the right to eat first, he or she 
usually ... The most common method is to fence off an area inside the chicken run 
... usually establishes dominance and puts an end to the pecking. [DOC] [TLE] 10 Provocative Questions About Raising ChickensAnswered ... [PAR] Sep 11, 2010 ... Chickens establish a social hierarchy from an early age by pecking each other. ... 
When a chicken is added or removed from a flock, the other birds can .... 
Throughout history, various cultures have kept chickens for divination and .... 
Facts 2 and 7 have lent themselves to the common phrase "henpecked.". [DOC] [TLE] A longitudinal study of dominance and aggression in greylag geese ... [PAR] Mar 24, 2011 ... Hence, dominance behaviors may not only be influenced by .... is common and 
may account the loss of up to 10% of the adult flock per year (Hemetsberger 2001
). .... Fixed effects of parents, life-history traits, season, and flock structure .... At 
these positions in the flock hierarchy, the social environment may... [DOC] [TLE] Preservation of winter social dominance status in Brent ... - Springer [PAR] When a social dominance hierarchy is established within a group, the outcome of 
... conditions and individual phenotypic traits involved in the expression of 
dominance status. ... Juveniles (first-winter) were distinguished from birds in adult 
plumage ... Dominance scores were percentages, hence were arcsine-
transformed to... [DOC] [TLE] Mathematical model of self-organizing hierarchies in animal societies [PAR] Hierarchical behaviour has been described, for example, in chickens ... was 
originally stimulated by studies on primitively eusocial wasps Polistes, hence a 
natural ... Even in primitive species, the expression of the hierarchical structure of 
the .... This means that the dominance index X,. not only describes the past 
history of

Question: Dominance was first discovered in flocks of chickens, hence this common hierarchical phrase
Answer: Pecking order